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In search of spatial extremes / A. Stein [and others] -- Operational evaluation of air quality models / P.D. Sampson and P. Guttorp -- Assessing the human health risk of atmospheric particles / R.L. Smith, J.M. David and P. Speckman -- Ozone dose mapping and the utility of models / C.W. Anderson and R.I. Smith -- Measuring and modelling pollution for risk analysis / J.V. Zidek and N.D. Lee -- A preliminary statistical examination of the efffects of uncertainty and variability on environmental regulatory criteria for ozone / L.H. Cox [and others] -- Statistics and environmental policy : case studies from long-term environmental monitoring data / R. Goudey and G. Laslett -- Better late than never? Injecting statistical know-how into legislation on water quality / A.E. Warn -- Indicator quality for multidisciplinary systems / J. Riley -- Integrating data for sustainable development : introducing the distribution of resources framework / J. Heycox -- Does environmental data collection need statistics? / M.P.J. Pulles -- Air pollution statistics in policy applications / R.I. Smith -- Agriculture sector resource and environmental policy analysis : an economic and biophysical approach / R.M. House [and others].

AbstractThe paper shows how scientific research intended to identify and evaluate policy options incorporates social constructions of reality which make some assumptions appear plausible and others not. The point is not to argue the relativism of science, but rather to argue that there is a restricted set of social constructions, for example of the nature of the environment, broadly associated with different kinds of social groups. Good policy practice recognizes these plural rationalities.

Analyzing survey data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, this article examines citizens' preferences for assigning policy responsibility for environmental problems to different levels of government. I find that the public generally prefers the federal government to take the lead in addressing most issues, particularly those that relate to pollution and those that have a national or global scale. The public, however, prefers to give more responsibility to state and local governments to handle local-level issues. These results suggest a desire among many in the public to match governmental policy assignment with the geographic scale of the problem. The best predictor of individuals choice of government level is political orientation, and to a lesser extent ones general confidence in each level of government. Adapted from the source document.