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- Provides far-reaching orientation for social science assessments and helps to inform climate policy in a more reliable, policy-relevant and legimitate manner
- Offers particular guidance for the essential treatment of conflicting arguments and value judgements in socio-economic assessments
- Timely, because the refined science-policy model presented here adds to current debates on (social) science in policy, and the model already influenced recent IPCC assessments
- Contributes to the implementation and refinement of deliberative democracy
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 323)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Key Challenge of Integrated Economic Advice for Climate Policy
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A Philosophical Evaluation of Normative Science-Policy Models
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A Critical Look at the IPCC’s Economics
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Towards Improved Integrated Economic Assessments for Climate Policy
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About this book
While economic and other social science expertise is indispensable for successful public policy-making regarding global climate change, social scientists face trade-offs between the scientific credibility, policy-relevance, and legitimacy of their policy advice. From a philosophical perspective, this book systematically addresses these trade-offs and other crucial challenges facing the integrated economic assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Based on John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy and an analysis of the value-laden nature and reliability of climate change economics, the book develops a refined science-policy model and specific guidelines for these assessments of climate policy options. The core idea is to scientifically explore the various practical implications of alternative climate policy pathways in an interdisciplinary manner, together with diverse stakeholders. This could facilitate an iterative, deliberative public learning process concerning disputed policy issues. This volume makes novel contributions to three strands of the literature: (1) the philosophy of (social) science in policy; (2) the philosophy of economics; and (3) debates about the design of scientific assessments, including the continuous IPCC reform debate. This work is thus interesting for philosophers and other scholars reflecting on the science-policy interface, but also for assessment practitioners, climate policy-makers, and economists. The science-policy approach developed in this volume has already influenced the recent socio-economic IPCC assessment.
Keywords
- Controversial Economic Advice
- Epistemic quality of climate economics
- Ethics in climate economics
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Political philosophy
- Pragmatism as an alternative to fatalism
- Pragmatism, Dewey, Putnam
- The challenge of economic assessments
- Value judgments in economics
Authors and Affiliations
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Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany
Martin Kowarsch
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Pragmatist Orientation for the Social Sciences in Climate Policy
Book Subtitle: How to Make Integrated Economic Assessments Serve Society
Authors: Martin Kowarsch
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43281-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43279-3Published: 09 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82779-7Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43281-6Published: 01 September 2016
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Political Philosophy, Economic Policy, Pragmatism