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Title proper from title frame.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Print version record.;1 Introduction; I: Institutions for Climate Science Assessment; 2 The Cost of Cartelization; 3 Adversarial versus Consensus Processes for Assessing Scientific Evidence; II: Taxonomy and Endangered Species Regulation; 4 On The Origin of Specious Species; 5 Politics and Science in Endangered Species Act Listing Decisions; III: Reforming the Role of Science in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation; 6 Reconciling the Scientific and Regulatory Timetables; 7 Improving the Use of Science to Inform Environmental Regulation; 8 A Return to Expertise?; Index; About the Contributors.;Includes bibliographical references and index.;Description based on print version record. Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional health-based environmental regulation. The contributors in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the political or legal demand for regulatory action an.