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<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b><font color="#000000">Judith Layzer<br></font></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; ">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Science and Storytelling in Environmental Politics</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000">Monday, November 22nd</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
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<font color="#000000">Lunch is provided if you RSVP.</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000">Please RSVP to </font><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><font color="#000000"><span><span>sts</span></span>@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by Thursday, November 18th.</font></div>
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<b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Abstract:</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> In this talk, I argue that recent efforts by antiregulatory activists to discredit climate-change scientists are nothing new. Rather, they are part of an evolving strategy aimed at undermining environmentally risk-averse interpretations of scientific research, which environmentalists have used to justify demands for protective regulations. I explain how both sides in the contemporary environmental policy debates use science as a source of the stories they tell in hopes of influencing politics. I trace the history of science-as-storytelling through a few prominent cases, and examine the implications for current policy debates.</span></font></div>
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<b>Biography</b>: Judy Layzer is a political scientist whose research and teaching focus on the roles of science, values, and storytelling in environmental politics, as well as on the effectiveness of different approaches to environmental planning and management. A current research project investigates how conservative activists have developed a coherent storyline aimed at undermining environmentalism and how conservative ideas have influenced U.S. environmental politics. A second project examines the nature and results of urban sustainability planning and asks: do urban sustainability initiatives significantly reduce cities' ecological footprint? Which aspects of "green cities" are most effective at reducing cities' environmental impacts? With Professor JoAnn Carmin, Layzer co-directs the Environmental Policy and Planning group's Society, Business and the Environment Project. She also directs the Urban Sustainability Project @ MIT.</div>
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<font color="#000000">A complete list of <span><span>STS</span></span> <span><span>Circle</span></span> at Harvard events can be found on our website:</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
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