For this Assignment, choose a discreet environmental policy issue that you are interested in, such as climate change, forest management, or air-quality regulations. Write a 3-5 page paper defining the roles and expectations that scientists and two other experts (such as elected officials, non-governmental stakeholders, or economists) play in this area, illustrating issues of power, the potential (realized or not) of science in the policy-making process, and the barriers and incentives to collaborative outcomes among experts.
Be sure to:
- Identify the influences on the experts (such as values, interests, positions, and external forces).
- Discuss how these influences impact the experts' contributions to environmental collaborative processes and ultimately the outcomes of those processes.
- Consider the degrees and types of interactions among the science and policy experts in framing and implementing environmental policies.
- Predict how those elements affect long term implications of a policy.