1: Knowledge, advice, and policy
2: The environment in politics
3: A standing royal commission
4: Susan Owens and Tim Rayner: Risk, precaution, and governance: an
evolution of ideas
5: The quest for integration
6: The circumstances of influence
7: Giving good advice?
Appendices
1: Reports of the Royal Commission and government responses
2: Location of environmental functions in UK Government,
1970-2011
3: Interviewees (and other sources) by category
4: United Kingdom and European legislation mentioned in the
text
5: Chairs of the Royal Commission and membership, 1971, 1991, and
2011
Susan Owens is Professor of Environment and Policy at the
University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, and a
Professorial Fellow of Newnham College. Her research lies in the
field of environmental governance, with particular interests in the
role of knowledge, ideas, and expertise in policy formation and
change. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academy
of Social Sciences, and has been a member of the Royal Society's
Science Policy Advisory
Group (2008-13). She served on the Royal Commission on
Environmental Pollution for ten years, 1998-2008. She was appointed
an OBE in 1998 and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal
Institute of
Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
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