Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science

by Johnston, Jason Scott; Conrad, James W., Jr.; Dudley, Susan; Gray, George M.; Marchant, Gary; McKitrick, Ross; Ramey, Rob Roy, II; Wyman, Katrina

• ISBN13: 9780739169469
• ISBN10: 0739169467
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-12
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In this insightful edited collection, major scholars in the field of environmental law and public policy analyze the credibility in environmental and natural resource regulation. The contributions to this volume show how this crisis may, in fact, be traced directly to regulators themselves. Ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional health-based environmental regulation, each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas. The contributors show how legal and regulatory institutions have themselves influenced the process by which science is produced and verified, high-lighting an inevitable difference between the political or legal demand for regulatory action and the actual state of evolving scientific knowledge. Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science gives concrete suggestions for how regulatory institutions should be reformed to restore the credibility of science-based regulation. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jason Scott Johnston is the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law and the Nicholas E. Chimicles Research Professor in Business Law and Regulation, University of Virginia School of Law.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Institutions for Climate Science Assessment	p. 15
The Cost of Cartelization: The IPCC Process and the Crisis of Credibility in Climate Science	p. 17
Adversarial versus Consensus Processes for Assessing Scientific Evidence: Should the IPCC Operate More Like a Courtroom?	p. 55
Taxonomy and Endangered Species Regulation	p. 75
On The Origin of Specious Species	p. 77
Politics and Science in Endangered Species Act Listing Decisions	p. 99
Reforming the Role of Science in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation	p. 131
Reconciling the Scientific and Regulatory Timetables	p. 133
Improving the Use of Science to Inform Environmental Regulation	p. 165
A Return to Expertise?: A Proposal for an Institute of Scientific Assessments	p. 199
Index	p. 215
About the Contributors	p. 223
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