Uncertainty in Policy Making (Science in Society Series)

by Michael Heazle (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $42.59

  Explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. This title argues that conventional notions of rational, evidence-based policy making - hailed by governments and organisations across the world as the only way to make good policy - is an impossible aim in highly complex and uncertain environments.