| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3

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Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment. By Stephen Bocking. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. x + 298 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.

The science underlying many environmental management decisions has come under attack from proponents and opponents of environmental regulation. Many scientists and environmental managers attribute the decline in environmental science's authority to the politicization of science and subsequent skepticism about its claims as a source of neutral knowledge. Many scientists, managers, and activists also advocate greater reliance on scientific models to determine appropriate courses of environmental action. In Nature's Experts, Stephen Bocking provides a compelling argument that neither depoliticizing environmental science nor more reliance on scientific models in environmental decision-making are likely to resolve the impasses that hinder effective environmental action. Instead, he builds a strong case that constructing an effective environmental science requires explicit recognition of the political nature of science and willingness on the part of scientists to acknowledge the validity of experiential knowledge.

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