Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development
- ISBN-10
- 0415115485
- ISBN-13
- 9780415115483
- Series
- Citizen Science
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Alan Irwin
Description
In Citizen Science, Alan Irwin provides a much-needed and insightful route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat. A major contribution to our understanding of environmental sociology.
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