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"Environmental science often emphasizes that while we are surrounded by challenges, we also have tremendous opportunities. We face critical challenges in biodiversity loss, clean water protection, climate change, population growth, sustainable food systems, and many other areas. But we also have tremendous opportunities to take action to protect and improve our environment. By studying environmental science, you have the opportunity to gain the tools and the knowledge to make intelligent choices on these and countless other questions"--

This paper examines the relationship between organization science and managerial practice. Science and practice are viewed as interdependent, yet semiautonomous, domains which engage in their own specialized forms of discourse or "language games." The paper examines both the internal dynamics of these language games and the relationship between them. The analysis suggests a reinterpretation of the role played by organizational scientists in relation to practitioners. Organizational scientists should be viewed not as engineers offering technical advice to managers but as providers of conceptual and symbolic language for use in organizational discourse. This view's implications for enhancing the relationship between organization science and managerial practice is discussed.

"This book provides a significant contribution to scholarship on the psychology of science and the psychology of technology by showcasing a range of theory and research distinguished as psychological studies of science and technology. Science and technology are central to almost all domains of human activity, for which reason they are the focus of subdisciplines such as philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, sociology of knowledge, and history of science and technology. To date, psychology has been marginal in this space and limited to relatively narrow epistemological orientations. By explicitly embracing pluralism and an international approach, this book offers new perspectives and directions for psychological contributions. The book brings together leading theorists and researchers from around the world and spans scholarship across a variety of traditions that include theoretical psychology, critical psychology, feminist psychology and social constructionist approaches. Following a historical and conceptual introduction, the collection is divided into three sections: Scoping a New Psychology of Science and Technology, Applying Psychological Concepts to the Study of Science and Technology and Critical Perspectives on Psychology as a Science. The book will interest interdisciplinary scholars who work in the space of Science and Technology Studies and psychologists interested in the diverse human aspects of science and technology"--

Covers the advances for quantitative researchers with practical examples from social sciences. This title includes twelve chapters that cover various issues - providing practical tools using the free R software.

THIS SECTION DISCUSSES THE NON-CONTROVERSIAL NATURE OF THE POLITICAL IDEA OF A COMMON SECURITY AMONG NATIONS. THE IDEA DECLARES THAT NATIONS MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE MAINTENANCE OF WORLD PEACE MUST BE GIVEN A HIGHER PRIORITY THAN THE ASSERTION OF IDEOLOGICAL OR POLITICAL POSITIONS. PROPONENTS OF COMMON SECURITY ARE LOOKING FOR A MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN POLITICAL REALISM AND POLITICAL IDEALISM. COMMON SECURITY WILL NEED A DUAL STRATEGY OF WAYS TO REGULATE POLITICAL CONFLICTS AND ARMS CONTROL.

Timely public engagement in science presents a broad challenge. It includes more than research into the ethical, legal and social dimensions of science and state-initiated citizen's participation. Introducing a public perspective on science while safeguarding its public value involves a diverse set of actors: natural scientists and engineers, technology assessment institutes, policy makers, social scientists, citizens, interest organisations, artists, and last, but not least, politicians.