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Product Description The essays deal with policy issues relating to environment governance in a situation where relevant scientific knowledge is uncertain and contextual. Recent debates in the context include climate change, genetically modified foods, and sustainable development. When stakes are high anddecisions are urgent, new approaches are required for knowledge production and policy making.Divided into five parts, the volume features: I. methodological perspectives; II. GMO policies covering bio-safety laws; III. climate change policy; IV. energy policy: nuclear waste, corporate energystrategies; V. sustainable development: assessment tools, S&T Policymaking, and water governance. About the Author Angela Gumarães Pareira and Silvio Funtowicz are researchers at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre at the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), Knowledge Assessment Methodologies Group.