Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
Environment has always addressed interactions between human activities and the natural world. This year, we formalize and intensify that focus with a new mission statement:

Flunking Science
TODAY NO ONE DENIES THAT TECHNOLOGY plays a central role in the economy, foreign policy, and our daily lives. There's genetically engineered food on our plates, cell phones attached to teenage ears, smart bombs searching for targets, and e-everything everywhere. That trend is reflected in action on Capitol Hill, where most bills contain at least inklings of science, medicine, or technology. Somehow, we have faith that our elected officials are up to the task of mastering all those issues and making informed decisions...

Reports: policy, not science, drives Bush administration
A report by a group of more than sixty influential scientists, including twenty Nobel laureates, asserts that the Bush administration has systematically distorted scientific facts and findings to support its policy goals. The report, "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking," was written by Seth and issued on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy: Opportunities and Challenges for the Knowledge Economy - reviews: the $100 billion opportunity: continuing
Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy: Opportunities and Challenges for the Knowledge Economy Edited by Pedro, David, Manuel, and Syed. International Series on Technology, Policy and Innovation.

Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, And The Environment
Stephen book, Nature's Experts, is important, insightful, and very readable. If knowledge is power, he asks, then why is it that science has lost some of its credibility in areas, such as environmental regulation, that would seem to require solid and credible science to proceed? With a trenchant analysis of the problems, failures, and successes of peer review, for example, Bocking points out areas and methods in which science can improve its impact and effectiveness.

The politics and science of GM crops
On 30 March 2004, Bayer CropScience announced that it was not proceeding with the commercial planting of herbicide-tolerant genetically modified (GM) maize, which it had pioneered five years earlier. The company said that the decision was a commercial one, based on the anticipation of continued regulatory delays and potential uncertainty over the planting of GM crops in the United Kingdom. The market has, for the foreseeable future, determined the fate of a new technology.