Response To Review Of Environmental Values in American Culture

RESPONSE TO REVIEW OF Environmental Values in American Culture . Reviewed by Willett Kempton, Senior Policy Scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware.

A Far Famine, Global Policy Science, and a “Truly” Conscious Species

Vestal's study of the Ethio-African famine process inspires comment along several lines. As a not-policy scientist writing about policy science matters I beg tolerance in what follows, consistent with my express intention to focus on famine in perspective, including alternative ones. But first, in the spirit of Science.

Understanding Urban Models versus Understanding Cities

The relationship between theory and practice in regional science is examined in terms of the use of urban modelling as a ‘policy science’ in the service of planning. It is argued that through this relationship, the theoretical deficiencies of models are reinforced by deficiencies in the way planning institutions are able to define practical problems for the ‘policy scientist’ to solve.