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Science shops are tackling research for and with communities

Small, community-based research centers address local problems ranging from soil contamination to high traffic-accident rates.

References:

Bammer, G., et al. 1992. Right idea, wrong time: The Wisenet Science Shop 1988-90. Prometheus 10(December):300.

Sclove, R.E., M.L. Scammell, and B. Holland. 1998. An Introductory Reconnaissance. Amherst, Mass.: The Loka Institute.

Further Readings:

Cordes C. 1998. Community-based projects help scholars build public support. Chronicle of Higher Education 45(Sept. 18):A37.

______. 1998. How community-based research changed a professor’s career. Chronicle of Higher Education 45(Sept. 18):A39.

Harr, H. 1996. A Civil Action. New York: Vintage Books/Random House.

Mulder, H., et al. 1996. Knowledge influences/influenced. Proceedings of the Dutch Science Shops National Conference. May. Netherlands. Available at http://www.fwn.rug.nl/chemshop/ldeng.html.

Ree, K. 1996. Science shops in the Netherlands, success or survival? Seminar Democracy and Knowledge. November. Copenhagen. Information available at http://www.fwn.rug.nl/chemshop/kopen.html.

Roush, W. 1996. U.S. joins "science shop" movement. Science 273(Aug. 2):572.

Sclove, R.E. 1998. Better approaches to science policy. Science 279(Feb. 27):1283

______. 1995. Putting science to work in communities. Chronicle of Higher Education XLI(March 31):B1.

Sources:

Gabrielle Bammer
Australian National University
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia

Scott Bernstein
Center for Neighborhood Technology
2125 West North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647

Daryl Chubin
National Science Foundation
Policy Association
NSB Office
Room 1220
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230

Richard W. Clapp
JSI Center for Environmental Research
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210

Andrew N. Cohen
San Francisco Estuary Institute
180 Richmond Field Station
1325 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA 94804

Jan Dawe
Alaskan Boreal Forest Council
P.O. Box 84530
Fairbanks, AK 99708-4530

Michael S. Jorgensen
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Technology and Social Sciences
Building 322
DK-2800 Lyngby
Denmark

The Loka Institute
P.O. Box 355
Amherst, MA 01004-0355
E-mail: Loka@amherst.edu
Web site: www.loka.org

Henk A.J. Mulder
University of Groningen
Department of Chemistry
Nijenborgh 4
9747 AG Groningen
Netherlands

Anne C. Peterson
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
One Michigan Avenue East
Battle Creek, MI 49008

Dianne Quigley
Childhood Cancer Research Institute
P.O. Box 309
Worcester, MA 01602

The Science Shop
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Technology and Social Sciences
Building 322
DK-2800 Lyngby
Denmark

Richard E. Sclove
The Loka Institute
P.O. Box 355
Amherst, MA 01004-0355

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 19, November 7, 1998, p. 298.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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