Science and public policy: Dagmar Simon, Stefan Kuhlmann, Julia Stamm, Weert Canzler (eds.): Handbook on science and public policy. Handbooks of research on public policy series. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, 584 pp, £ 180 HB
Science and public policy: Dagmar Simon, Stefan Kuhlmann, Julia Stamm, Weert Canzler (eds.): Handbook on science and public policy. Handbooks of research on public policy series. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, 584 pp, £ 180 HB
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这是科学和公共政策的关键时刻。持续的COVID-19危机无疑加剧了本手册所涵盖问题的重要性：科学专业知识如何以有意义的方式与政策制定互动;科学政策如何在不危及学术机构的知识和道德独立性的情况下对科学研究进行适当治理;以及科学机构如何应对人道主义，社会，和全球性挑战，发挥领导作用，并与社会上的其他行动者进行建设性的接触。19危机清楚地表明，科学和公共政策面临的挑战既有国家的，也有全球的。因此，《手册》是对文献的一个值得欢迎的补充。它概述了美国，欧洲和澳大利亚的发展（在世界其他地区没有那么多）;它结合了社会和人文科学的多学科视角;它将理论视角与经验贡献相结合。《手册》与许多其他手册一样，不是传统意义上的参考书，也不是易于查阅和提供现成参考的手册。出于这样的目的，贡献实在是太多样化了，而且，正如编辑在他们的介绍中所说，该领域最好的特点是“一个不断变化的景观”（1）。
This is a crucial moment in time for science and public policy. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis certainly has exacerbated the importance of the issues covered by the Handbook under review here: How scientific expertise interacts in a meaningful way with policy-making; how science policy allows for proper governance of scientific research without putting the intellectual and moral independence of academic institutions at risk; and how scientific institutions respond to humanitarian, societal, and global challenges by taking on leadership and engaging constructively with other actors in society.The COVID-19 crisis has clearly shown that the challenges faced by science and public policy are both national and global in scope. The Handbook therefore is a welcome addition to the literature. It provides an overview of developments in the US, Europe, and Australia (not so much in other parts of the world); it incorporates a multidisciplinary perspective from the social and human sciences; and it combines theoretical perspectives with empirical contributions. The Handbook, like many other handbooks, is not a handbook in the traditional sense of a reference work that is easy to access and provides ready reference. For such a purpose, the contributions are simply too diverse, and, as the editors state in their introduction, the field is best characterized as “a landscape in flux”(1).