Title: SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND POWER: ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND POLICY IN WEST AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Description: "In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring the transformations in global science and its contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The book focuses on environment, forestry and conservation sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend upon for their livelihoods. It examines the relationships between policies, bureaucracies and particular types of scientific enquiry and explores how ordinary people, the media and education engages with these. In particular it shows how science becomes part of struggles over power, resources and legitimacy.

The authors take a unique ethnographic perspective, linking approaches in anthropology, development and science studies. They address critically prominent debates in each, and explore opportunities for new forms of participation, public engagement and transformation in the social relations of science."--Jacket.
Subjects: Environmental Science, Globalization, Human geography, Social & cultural anthropology, Social theory, The Environment, Sociology, Guinea, Environmental Studies, Social Science, Caribbean islands, West Africa, Nature conservation, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Public Policy - Environmental Policy, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Trinidad, Anthropology - Cultural, Environmental policy, Government policy, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and tobago, politics and government, Guinea, politics and government, Environmental policy, africa, Science, social aspects, Science, Social aspects, 73.10 ecological conditions of existence: general (ethnology), 43.30 environmental and nature policy: general, Conservation de la nature, Politique de l'environnement, Gestion forestière, Développement durable, Biodiversité, Aspects sociaux, Analyse comparative, Kulturvergleich, Nachhaltigkeit, Umweltbewusstsein, Umweltpolitik, Natuurbehoud, Milieubeleid, Internationalisatie, Onderzoek, Environnement, Protection, Trinité, Sciences, Aspect social, Nature