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Ortwin Renn on the many roles of science advisors

Ortwin Renn on the many roles of science advisors

Science for Policy podcast episode

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11 April 2022

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Professor Ortwin Renn is one of Europe's leading academic authorities on scientific advice, complexity and risk. In this wide-ranging conversation on the multiple roles played by science advisors, he discusses the limits of science as a source of knowledge, the challenge of complexity and wicked problems, why scoping is so hard, science as a catalyst, tangled values, good and bad faith motivations, and much more besides.

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