This paper summarises some of the challenges to science that are posed by the search for sustainability. These challenges are not only technical ones, such as more affordable or reliable equipment for health care, water quality control and refrigeration. There are also fundamental empirical and...

The harnessing of science and technology as forces for sustainable development depends on processes that will ensure the involvement of all appropriate scientific input and expertise in problem identification and response. Scientific excellence and integrity need to be combined with a close...

Increasing attention is being paid to scientific aspects of policy or administrative decisions taken at a European level. Certain features of the process including the potentially irreversible consequences of decisions, the uncertainties involved, and the pressure on scientists to produce a...

The frequently remarked public distrust of ‘science’ is focused on science advice. On its present scale, such advice is a new sort of practice, for which the scientific community is not well prepared. The contributions of science advisors are deployed by those in the policy process, who have...