ENSC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Regional Policy Of The European Union, Scientific Method, Normal Science
11 Jan 2017
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The nature of scientific knowledge is not widely understood. This creates barriers to using scientific information to address environmental issues. Policy should follow scientific information use best available science . Global society and global systems that affect the environment generally operate under paradigms. Competing paradigms and the difficulty of changing paradigms are seen in env. There are 2 distinct types of knowledge that different scientists prescribe to: One side says science can be objective. One side says everything is socially constructed. Reality is probably a mix of both perspectives. While no knowledge may be certain, modern science comes remarkably close. According to kuhn (1962) a scientific paradigm can be defined as: What is to be observed and scrutinized. The kind of questions that are supposed to be asked and probed for answers in relation to this subject. How these questions are to be put. How the results of scientific investigations should be interpreted.
