Quality in environmental science for policy: Assessing uncertainty as a component of policy analysis

The precautionary principle and environmental policy: science, uncertainty, and sustainability.

n matters of personal health, prevention and precaution are widely recognized " best practices. " Policymakers are eager to endorse suggestions that we exercise or eat more fiber, or avoid tobacco and alcohol. Policies governing the release of toxic chemicals into the environment have not reflected similar common sense and foresight. However , there are some positive signs that this is changing...

Environmental Policy Aid Under Uncertainty

Quantitative Analysis of Uncertainty and Variability in Environmental Policy Making

i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I spent the summer of 1992 working as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Science and Engineering Fellow. This fellowship program is administered by AAAS under EPA sponsorship. My assignment was in the Exposure Assessment Group (EAG) of the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, whic...

Stock Market Uncertainty and the Analysis of Monetary Policy shock

Policy makers impose policies to improve economy circumstance in order to achieve economic goals. However, the consequence of these policies along with the intended goals will also influence expectations, fluctuations, etc., and cause changes in levels of uncertainty. The important role of the stock market in the economy, makes it important to examine its uncertainty and its interaction with mo...

Uncertainty in climate science and climate policy

This essay, written by a statistician and a climate scientist, describes our view of the gap that exists between current practice in mainstream climate science, and the practical needs of policymakers charged with exploring possible interventions in the context of climate change. By ‘mainstream’ we mean the type of climate science that dominates in universities and research centres, which we wi...