Understanding science

3: Uncertainty, science and the environment: implications for government policy

Seminar date: 8 October 1999

• Introduction
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Global Warming: What do we know and how do we know it?

• Professor Brian Hoskins FRS
  Global warming and climate change
• Dr John Pyle
  Global change: the coupling between atmospheric chemistry and climate
• Dr Jonathan Frost
  The fuel cell and global warming

Topic 2 Implications for Government Policy

• Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS
  Coping with uncertainty in the formulation of policy
• Professor Sir Robert May FRS
  The many faces of "uncertainty" in science: problems in making predictions about environmental issues

Topic 3 National and International Decision Making: Involving the Public

• Dr Susan Owens OBE
  Environmental policy: engaging the public
• Professor Partha Dasgupta FBA
  Environmental policy and the economy
• Professor Richard Macrory
  Environment and the law

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 3: Uncertainty, science and the environment: implications for government policy
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/uncertainty/

Seminar presented: 08/10/1999