In recent years the media, politicians, and activists have popularized the notion that climate change has made disasters worse. But what does the science actually say? Roger Pielke, Jr. takes a close look at the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the underlying scientific research, and the data to give you the latest science on disasters and climate change. What he finds may surprise you and raise questions about the role of science in political debates.
 The Rightful Place of Science is a book series published by Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy &amp; Outcomes, and edited by G. Pascal Zachary. The series explores the complex interactions among science, technology, politics, and the human condition.

The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change

Science & Math

Pielke Jr, Roger A.

Earth Sciences

Consortium for Science, Policy, & Outcomes

Creative nonfiction means true stories well told, communicating ideas and information in an accessible narrative form to enlighten and inform general readers. This volume is a collection of narrative essays that presents expert knowledge about science, technology, and innovation policy without the use of buzzwords and jargon.
 The Rightful Place of Science is a book series published by Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy &amp; Outcomes, and edited by G. Pascal Zachary. The series explores the complex interactions among science, technology, politics, and the human condition.

The Rightful Place of Science: Creative Nonfiction

Gutkind, Lee

Briggle, Adam

Berman, Elizabeth Popp

Ottinger, Gwen

Zirulnik, Michael

Guston, David

Chevrette, Roberta

Records, Angela

Sethi, Meera Lee

Wehlchel, Sara

Essays & Commentary

A crisis looms over the scientific enterprise. Not a day passes without news of retractions, failed replications, fraudulent peer reviews, or misinformed science-based policies. The social implications are enormous, yet this crisis has remained largely uncharted—until now. 
In Science on the Verge, luminaries in the field of post-normal science and scientific governance focus attention on worrying fault-lines in the use of science for policymaking, and the dramatic crisis within science itself. This provocative new volume in The Rightful Place of Science also explores the concepts that need to be unlearned, and the skills that must be relearned and enhanced, if we are to restore the legitimacy and integrity of science.

The Rightful Place of Science: Science on the Verge

Giampietro, Mario

Saltelli, Andrea

Benessia, Alice

Funtowicz, Silvio

Guimaraes Pereira, Angela

Ravetz, Jerome

Strand, Roger

van der Sluijs, Jeroen P.

History & Philosophy

This volume in The Rightful Place of Science series explores citizen science, the movement to reshape the relationship between science and the public. By not only participating in scientific projects but actively helping to decide what research questions are asked and how that research is conducted, ordinary citizens are transforming how science benefits society.
 Through vivid chapters that describe the history and theory of citizen science, detailed examples of brilliant citizen science projects, and a look at the movement's future, The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science is the ideal guide for anyone interested in one of the most important trends in scientific practice.

The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science

Cavalier, Darlene

Kennedy, Eric B.

There is a robust and growing demand for a more pragmatic approach to the climate challenge. The Rightful Place of Science: Climate Pragmatism brings together powerful ideas for meeting this demand. The starting point of this new approach is a commitment to human dignity and the potential for innovation to drive economic prosperity and protect the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. Driven by pragmatic and inclusive political strategies, this new framework builds on earlier work to focus on energy access, energy innovation, and climate adaptation.

The Rightful Place of Science: Climate Pragmatism

Lloyd, Jason

Nordhaus, Ted

Sarewitz, Daniel

Trembath, Alex

Two hundred years after its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein continues to speak to modern concerns about science, technology, and society. The story of Victor Frankenstein and his creature has become a cultural touchstone through myriad theatrical renditions, movies, and other adaptations and allusions. But Shelley’s original tale is far richer and more relevant to contemporary issues than the common interpretation of Frankenstein as a warning against scientific hubris.The authors of the essays in The Rightful Place of Science: Frankenstein examine the roots and origins of Shelley’s tragically flawed scientist and his benighted creature. They consider Frankenstein as a parable of creativity and responsibility that can help us better understand our current creative dilemmas. And they show how Shelley’s text foreshadows future technological innovations, and the challenges we anticipate from emerging fields such as synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. The bicentennial of this story of a scientist who failed to care for his creation provides an opportunity to explore creativity and responsibility across literary, scientific, social, and cultural dimensions.

The Rightful Place of Science: Frankenstein

Engineering & Transportation

Halpern, Megan

Eschrich, Joey

Sadowski, Jathan

Engineering

Knowledge is every organization’s most important asset. Yet far too few organizations are fully aware and in control of the systems they use to produce, validate, communicate, and apply knowledge. This pathbreaking book provides all organizations with the tools they need to design effective knowledge and knowledge systems for informing critical business, policy, and community decisions.

The Rightful Place of Science: Designing Knowledge

Business & Money

Miller, Clark A.

Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A

Management & Leadership

After nearly every hurricane, heatwave, drought, or other extreme weather event, commentators rush to link the disaster with climate change. But what does the science say? 
This fully revised second edition of Disasters &amp; Climate Change features updated data, analysis, and peer-reviewed science related to understanding recent weather-related disasters in the United States and around the world. The updated volume also offers an inside look at Roger Pielke Jr.'s most recent experiences on the front lines of the bitter climate debates as he has sought to share consensus scientific understandings with the public and policymakers. He concludes with a proposal for a pragmatic way forward on climate policy, one that recognizes the importance of both evidence and politics.

The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change

Pielke Jr., Roger

Science and innovation have been at the core of America’s economic and political activity since at least the end of World War II. But much has changed over the past seventy years, and the design principles and policy tools that structure science and innovation systems in the United States must change along with it. This book collects innovative methods and tools that can guide the design and operation of science policy as it meets the needs of a rapidly changing world. Representing two decades of work by scholars from and affiliated with Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, New Tools for Science Policy is a landmark work of science policy theory and practice. This volume explores how to produce useable science for better decision making and how to improve the public value of science. The second volume looks at the governance of emerging technologies. Both volumes are indispensable texts for policy practitioners and researchers as they build and improve knowledge enterprises capable of addressing the ever-growing number of challenges that confront society.

The Rightful Place of Science: New Tools for Science Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Humans are at the dawn of major shifts in the relationships among society, the environment, and technology. This transformation has profound implications for the design and management of the critical infrastructure that serves as the backbone for virtually every activity and service. Policymakers and the public have been largely able to ignore these systems, assuming that they'll continue to function as they have in the past. This is no longer a reasonable assumption. It's time to come to grips with the reality that the complexity of infrastructure is exploding, emerging and disruptive technologies are accelerating, history is no longer a reliable guide to the future-and education on these issues is insufficient. Infrastructure in the Anthropocene is a "timely and critical" (Chris Hendrickson, National Academy of Engineering) guide by two of the country's leading scholars of sustainable engineering, adaptation, and innovation. This indispensable book provides "practical and implementable" (Emmanuel Liban, American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Sustainability Chair) insight into what modern infrastructure can and should do, and how it should function on a planet now dominated by humans.

The Rightful Place of Science: Infrastructure in the Anthropocene

Allenby, Braden

Chester, Mikhail

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