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Sheila Jasanoff: Culture and Diversity in Risk Management
Author(s) -
Greenberg Michael,
Lowrie Karen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/risa.12083
Subject(s) - citation , library science , diversity (politics) , sociology , management , computer science , anthropology , economics
Several months before we wrote this profile, a Rutgers undergraduate interested in law and science as a career approached Michael. She asked for a list of books to read. Three of the five on the list Michael gave to her were by Sheila Jasanoff, selected because the writing is clear, discerning, and provocative; it makes you question your beliefs about public policy. Quoting John Graham, Dean of Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs: “Sheila is the rare combination of a graceful writer, and insightful mind, and a stickler for getting scientific and policy details right. [Her] work is both theoretically sophisticated and down to earth in its understanding of the life of practitioners and the public.”