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Environmental Expertise
Environmental Expertise
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
RC24 Environment and Society (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Many scholars consider environmental expertise crucial for discovering, diagnosing, and solving environmental problems but do not discuss in any depth what constitutes expertise. This is also the case for much environmental sociology, where expertise is often empirically investigated but rarely explained in any depth. There is surprisingly little discussion within environmental sociology on the meaning of expertise. How is the status of being expert achieved, what role does it have for environmental discourses and in environmental regulation and why does it have this role? Thus there is a need to sociologically elaborate the meaning and role of environmental expertise.
This session focuses on the meaning and role of environmental expertise. It welcomes conceptual papers, discussing how to best conceptualize and understand environmental expertise, as well as empirical paper, analyzing particular expertise and how it functions in particular contexts. The aim of the session is to improve our understanding of the meaning and importance of environmental expertise
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