Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Communicating among plural perspectives -- 1. When communication fails: A study of failures of global systems* -- 2. Science for sustainable development: Articulating knowledges -- Part II: Managing uncertainty, complexity and value commitments -- 3. Reflexively dealing with uncertainty and complexity in policy-related knowledge: What can it mean? -- 4. Uncertainty, assumptions and value commitments in the knowledge base of complex environmental problems -- 5. Science for governance: The implications of the complexity revolution* -- 6. Reflexivity and modesty in the application of complexity theory* -- 7. Precaution as an invigorating context for scientific input in policy processes -- Part III: Knowledge assessment -- 8. Why knowledge assessment? -- 9. Deliberating foresight knowledge for policy and foresight knowledge assessment -- Part IV: Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes -- 10. Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes -- 11. Interfaces between science and policy for environmental governance: Lessons and open questions from the european platform for biodiversity research strategy -- 12. Patents at the interfaces among science, society and the law* -- 13. Evaluating public and stakeholder engagement strategies in environmental governance -- Part V: Community-based research -- 14. Community-based research -- 15. Science and society inplace-based communities: Uncomfortable partners -- 16. Science shops as science-society interfaces* -- Part VI: Emerging styles of governance and new ICT -- 17. Building knowledge partnerships with ICT? Social and technological conditions of conviviality.

18. CSLoTs: communication of science to non-scientific audiences. VGAS©: exploration of energy, lifestyles and climate* -- 19. Worldwide virtual network of practitioners working on science and society issues -- Abbreviations -- About the contributors -- Index -- Back cover.