Making environmental policy work with civic science: the intermediary role of expert citizens at the Japanese local level

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Making environmental policy work with civic science: the intermediary role of expert citizens at the Japanese local level

The aim of the present article is to examine the importance of public participation in the production and use of environmental science, with special reference to “expert citizens” who can facilitate and mediate between expert knowledge and lay people. The study of expert citizens is largely unexplor...

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Main Author:	Takao, Yasuo
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2015
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30185

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