{"id":9309,"date":"2017-08-29T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T03:37:34","slug":"politics-vs-science-in-the-age-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2017\/08\/29\/politics-vs-science-in-the-age-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics vs science in the age of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political scientist and policy expert Dr Peter Tangney has authored an important new work on climate adaption policy in Australia and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <em>Climate adaptation policy and evidence: understanding the tensions between politics and expertise in public policy, <\/em>the book compares the politics and science behind climate adaptation policies and how realistic these policies are in practice.<\/p>\n<p>Despite there being a wealth of expert evidence about future climate impacts, the book argues that climate science is often ignored or politicised to ensure that it supports prevailing political and economic ideals.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Tangney\u2019s comparative analysis reveals what the politics of climate change mean for the ongoing development of useful evidence and for the practice of evidence-based policymaking.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available now from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Climate-Adaptation-Policy-and-Evidence-Understanding-the-Tensions-between\/Tangney\/p\/book\/9781138284814\">Routledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political scientist and policy expert Dr Peter Tangney has authored an important new work on climate adaption policy in Australia and the United Kingdom. Entitled Climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":9310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}