Relationships between Science and Management
By Jeff Ramsey
ABSTRACT
When making management decisions, scientists and policy makers often invoke somewhat standard conception of the relationship between science and policy. Stated crudely, that conception is: scientific assessment first; management, including economic analyses, second. The aim of this paper is to stimulate reflection about this model of the relationship and the models of science and policy associated with it. Current alternatives are discussed in order to argue that the alternatives offer a more balanced role for analytic knowledge in policy making. In particular, I argue the alternatives are more sensitive to the uncertainty that is pervasive in many management issues. Examples are drawn primarily from the literature on global climate change.
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