Global warming as analytic tip

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6252002
AutoresEmma Roe (0000-0001-5278-815X, University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia), Emery M Roe
Año1992
Volumen6
Número2-3
Páginas411-427
Fecha de publicación1992-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08913819208443270
OpenAlexW1972112987
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas15

Global warming, like many other environmental controversies, mixes pervasive uncertainty with the certainties of expert (but contradictory) opinion. How can we know who is right about global warming, if the only things we have to work with are the scientists’ competing scenarios, the truth‐value of which has yet to be established? One approach is to rely on narrative policy analysis to identify the non‐scientific, but policy‐relevant role played by the global warming controversy. This approach shows that the controversy signals a wider “analytic tip” taking place in the examination of major public policy problems, a tip toward the notion that issues which can still be effectively dealt with locally, regionally or nationally must now first be addressed globally. The policy implications of analytic tip and the narrative features of the global warming scenario are profound for both environmentalists and their ideological opponents

Climate change · Economics · Environmental ethics · Global warming · Ideology · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Scientific consensus · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance