Politics, Science and the Spruce Budworm in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Conclusions about the role of scientific knowledge in shaping environmental policy, such as the acid rain case, have tended to focus on contemporary events and to suggest the responsiveness of governments to scientific research. This article looks instead at the scientific evidence of acidification...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 164 - 192 |
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University of Toronto Press
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