By S.O. Funtowicz,J.R. Ravetz

ISBN-10: 0792307992

ISBN-13: 9780792307990

This booklet explains the notational method NUSAP (Numeral, Unit, unfold, review, Pedigree) and applies it to numerous examples from the environmental sciences. The authors are actually making extra extensions of NUSAP, together with an set of rules for the propagation of quality-grades via versions utilized in possibility and defense reports. also they are constructing the concept that of `Post-normal Science', within which caliber coverage of data calls for the participation of `extended peer-communities' mendacity outdoors the normal expertise.

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