Ortwin Renn on the many roles of science advisors
Science for Policy
English - April 11, 2022 04:45 - 42 minutes - 62.6 MBScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Professor Ortwin Renn is one of Europe's leading academic authorities on scientific advice, complexity and risk. In this wide-ranging conversation on the multiple roles played by science advisors, he discusses the limits of science as a source of knowledge, the challenge of complexity and wicked problems, why scoping is so hard, science as a catalyst, tangled values, good and bad faith motivations, and much more besides.