Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

Volume 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part II: Studies of Arenas

Chapter 4
Institutional Cultures and the Management of
Global Environmental Risks in the United Kingdom

Brian Wynne and Peter Simmons with Claire Waterton, Peter Hughes, and Simon Shackley

4.1	Introduction
4.2	U.K. Political Culture and Scientific Institutions
4.2.1	Environmental Knowledge and U.K. Policy Culture
4.2.2	“Sound Science” and Environmental Issues
4.3	Framing the Issues
4.3.1	Acid Rain
4.3.2	Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
4.3.3	Climate Change
4.4	Environmental Policy Change as Social Learning
4.4.1	The Responses of U. K. Actors to International Influences
4.4.2	Sovereignty and Foreign Policy: Learning from Painful Experience
4.4.3	Dissolving Cohesion in Policy Formulation
4.4.4	“Sound Science” and Policy Culture: Learning the Trade-offs
4.5	Conclusion
Appendix 4A	Acronyms
Appendix 4B	Chronology Notes References
Figure 4.1	Attention to global atmospheric issues in the United Kingdom: Acid rain
Figure 4.2	Attention to global atmospheric issues in the United Kingdom: Ozone depletion
Figure 4.3	Attention to global atmospheric issues in the United Kingdom: Climate change