Bøger af Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Because of economic, environmental and political abuses, we are not using our land and natural resources in the most ecologically enlightened ways. This book outlines a new national policy for land use and provides a new legal, political and ethical justification for the proposed policies.

As a philosopher of science seeking the middle path between uncritical acceptance and extremist rejection of the economic methods used in policy analysis, I have tried to avoid the charge of being "anti science".

Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis.

On the other hand, books and reports written by nuclear proponents, often Under government contract, almost always ignore the social and ethical aspects of energy decision-making;