Constructivism in practice? : exploring the implementation gap within the UK pesticide risk assessment framework

Traditional forms of risk assessment for pesticide spraying adhere strongly to the ‘positivist’ paradigm, with a reliance on expert knowledge and ‘objective’ scientific experiment methods. This thesis primarily explores how well ideas about increasing the levels of knowledge pluralism, accountabilit...

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Main Author: Hughes, Gareth John Arfon
Published: University of Cambridge 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604736