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知识和环境政策

Knowledge and Environmental Policy
课程网址: http://ocw.uci.edu/lectures/lecture.aspx?id=436  
主讲教师: William Ascher
开课单位: 加州大学尔湾分校
开课时间: 2011-01-19
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
可持续发展研讨会于2011年1月19日由Claremont McKenna教授William Ascher教授发表,“知识与环境政策”。环境政策制定者依赖来自各种来源的大量知识。有时可用的知识在技术上是合适的,涵盖了决策者应该考虑的广泛考虑因素,但很容易识别相关知识的产生,传播和使用中的严重限制。某些形式和知识来源对其他形式和知识来源不恰当,因此缩小了政策制定者应该考虑的一系列考虑因素,例如实践知识和公众偏好的表达。寻求更多知识可能会使采取必要行动的短视延误合理化。通过研究这三个过程如何暴露于技术限制和争论,我们可以了解为什么以及如何在环境政策过程中使用和滥用知识。更多知识解决政策争议,避免政治需要以及“丑恶政治”的观点。破坏知识对环境政策制定的贡献,忽视政治作为对社会目标的争论所必须发挥的关键作用。在知识 - 政策关系中拒绝政治的必然性将政治推向地下,使得更难以看出价值立场伪装成纯技术的地方。基于该诊断,可以设计出许多用于改进知识过程的建议。
课程简介: Sustainability Seminar delivered on January 19, 2011 by Claremont McKenna Professor William Ascher, "Knowledge and Environmental Policy." Environmental policymakers rely on a prodigious amount of knowledge from a wide variety of sources. Sometimes available knowledge is technically appropriate and covers the broad range of considerations that policymakers ought to take into account, yet it is easy to identify serious limitations in the generation, transmission, and use of relevant knowledge. Some forms and sources of knowledge are inappropriately privileged over others, narrowing the range of considerations that policymakers ought to take into account, such as practical knowledge and the expression of public preferences. The quest for more knowledge may rationalize shortsighted delays in taking necessary actions. By looking at how these three processes are exposed to both technical limitations and contestation, we can learn why and how knowledge is used and abused in the environmental policy process. The views that more knowledge resolves policy disputes, obviating the need for politics, and that "ugly politics" undermines the contributions of knowledge to environmental policymaking, neglect the crucial role that politics, as contestation over societal goals, has to play. The rejection of the inevitability of politics in the knowledge-policy relationship drives the politics underground, making it more difficult to see where value positions are masquerading as purely technical. Based on this diagnosis, many recommendations for improving the knowledge processes can be devised.
关 键 词: 知识; 环境政策; 可持续发展
课程来源: 加州大学尔湾分校公开课
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