Daniel Sarewitz
Dans work focuses on understanding the connections between scientific research and social benefit, and on developing methods and policies to strengthen such connections. His most recent book is Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery (co-edited with Alan Lightman and Christina Desser; Island P ress, 2003). He is also the co-editor of Prediction: Science, Decision-Making, and the Future of Nature (Island Press, 2000) and the author of Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress, (Temple University Press, 1996). He has also written many other articles, speeches, and reports about the relationship between science and social progress. Prior to taking up his current position as director of the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, he was the director of the Geological Society of America's Institute for Environmental Education. From 1989-1993 he worked on Capitol Hill, first as a Congressional Science Fellow, and then as science consultant to the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where he was also principal speech writer for Committee Chairman George E. Brown, Jr. Before moving into the policy arena he was a research associate in the Dept. of Geological Sciences at Cornell University, with field areas in the Philippines, Argentina, and Tajikistan. He received his Ph.D. in geological sciences from Cornell University in 1986.
Selected Publications
Books
Guston, D. H. and D. Sarewitz (eds.) (under contract). Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Lightman, A., D. Sarewitz and C. Desser (eds.) 2003. Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Sarewitz, D., R.A. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly, Jr. (eds.) 2000. Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Sarewitz, D. 1996. Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology and Politics of Progress. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
Sarewitz (in review). Articles on: Uncertainty; Prediction; Affluence; Hazards; Gaia; and Governance of Science, in Mitcham, C (ed.), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan.
Garfinkle, M.S. and D. Sarewitz (in review). A Societal Outcomes Map for Health Research and Policy, Research Policy.
Sarewitz, D., G. Foladori, N. Invernizzi, and M. Garfinkel (in review). Science Policy in Its Social Context, Philosophy Today.
Sarewitz, D. (in press). How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse, Environmental Science and Policy.
Lempert, R., N. Nakicenovic, D. Sarewitz, and M. Schlesinger (in press). Characterizing Climate-Change Uncertainties for Decisionmakers, Climatic Change.
Bozeman, B. and D. Sarewitz (in press). Public Value Failures and Science Policy, Science and Public Policy.
Garfinkle, M.S. and D. Sarewitz 2003. Parallel Path: Poliovirus Research in the Vaccine Era, Science and Engineering Ethics v. 9(3) pp. 319-338.
Sarewitz, D. 2003. Science and Happiness, Chapter in A. Lightman, D. Sarewitz and C. Desser (eds.). Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery, Washington, DC: Island Press, pp. 181-200.
Sarewitz, D. and E. Woodhouse 2003. Small is Powerful, Chapter in A. Lightman, D. Sarewitz and C. Desser (eds.). Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery, Washington, DC: Island Press, pp. 63-83.
Sarewitz, D., R.A. Pielke, Jr. and M. Keykhah 2003. Vulnerability and Risk: Some Thoughts from a Political and Policy Perspective, Risk Analysis, v. 23(4), pp. 805-810.
Sarewitz, D. 2003. Science and Technology Policies for the Environment, Chapter in AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2003, Washington, DC: AAAS, ch. 12.
Pielke, Jr., R. A. and D. Sarewitz 2003. Wanted: Scientific Leadership on Climate, Issues in Science and Technology, Winter, pp. 27-30.
Guston, D.H. and D. Sarewitz 2002. Real-Time Technology Assessment, Technology in Culture, v. 24, pp. 93-109.
Sarewitz, D. 2001. Selected Commentaries, in N. Mirovitskaya and W. Ascher (eds.). Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Crow, M. and D. Sarewitz 2001. Nanotechnology and Societal Transformation. Chapter in: M. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge (eds.). Societal Implications of Nanotechnology. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 55-67; reprinted in A. Teich, S. Nelson, C. McEnaney, and S. J. Lita (eds.). AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001. Washington, DC: AAAS, pp. 55-67.
Sarewitz, D. and R. A. Pielke, Jr. 2001. Extreme events: a research and policy framework for disasters in context, International Geology Review, v. 43, pp. 406-418.
Guston, D. H., E. J. Woodhouse, and D. Sarewitz 2001. A Science and Technology Policy Focus for the Bush Administration, Issues in Science and Technology, v. 17, Spring, pp. 29-32. Reprinted in A. Teich, S. Nelson, and S. Lita, (eds.), AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2002,Washington, DC: AAAS, 2002.
Sarewitz, D. and R. A. Pielke, Jr. 2000. Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock, The Atlantic Monthly, July, pp. 54-64.
Pielke, Jr., R. A., R. A. Klein, and D. Sarewitz 2000. Turning the Big Knob: An Evaluation of the Use of Energy Policy to Modulate Future Climate Impacts, Energy and Environment, v. 11, pp. 255-276.
Herrick, C. and D. Sarewitz. 2000. Ex Post Evaluation: A More Effective Role for Scientific Assessments in Environmental Policy, Science, Technology, and Human Values, v. 25, pp. 309-331.
Sarewitz, D. 2000. Human Well-being and Federal Science—What's the Connection?, Chapter in D.L. Kleinman, (ed.). Science, Technology, and Democracy , Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 87-102; reprinted as Bienestar humano y ciencia federal, cual es su conexion?, Chapter in J. A. Lopez Cerezo and J. M. Sanchez Ron (eds.). Ciencia, Tecnologia, Sociedad y Cultura, Madrid: Bilbioteca Nueva, 2001, pp. 155-172.
Sarewitz, D. 2000. Science and Environmental Policy: An Excess of Objectivity, Chapter in R. Frodeman (ed.). Earth Matters: The Earth Sciences, Philosophy, and the Claims of Community, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp. 79-98.
Sarewitz, D., R. A. Pielke, Jr., R. Byerly 2000. Introduction: Death, Taxes, and Environmental Policy, Chapter 1 in D. Sarewitz, R. A. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly., (eds.). Prediction: Science Decision Making and the Future of Nature, Island Press: Washington, DC, pp. 1-10.
Sarewitz, D. and R. A. Pielke, Jr. 2000. Prediction in Science and Policy, Chapter in D. Sarewitz, R. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly, Jr. (eds.). Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature, Washington, DC: Island Press, pp. 11-22.
Sarewitz, D., R. A. Pielke Jr., and R. Byerly Jr. 2000. Decision Making and the Future of Nature: Understanding and Using Predictions, Chapter 18 in D. Sarewitz, R. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly, Jr. (eds.). Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature, Washington, DC: Island Press, pp. 361-388.
Opinion Pieces, Reviews, Letters, and Published Reports
Sarewitz, D. 2004. Hiding Behind Science, Newsday, May 23, 2004, p. A51.
Sarewitz, D. 2003. Review of Science, Truth, and Democracy, by P. Kitcher, Policy Sciences, v. 36, pp. 197-202.
Sarewitz, D. 2003. Open Science, Closed Society, Newsday, April 27, 2003, p. A 28.
Pielke, Jr., R.A. and D. Sarewitz, 2003: Research as Action on Climate Change, Space News, January 6, p. 15.
Garfinkle, M. and D. Sarewitz 2002. Science Class (letter to the editors), The New Republic, February 25, p. 4.
Sarewitz, D. 2001. Politics is Hell, Review of Science, Money, and Politics, by D. Greenberg, Science, v. 294, October 12, pp. 311-312.
Sarewitz, D. 2001. Catastrophe Will Always Find a New Way to Strike, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 23, p. E4.
Sarewitz, D. and R. A. Pielke, Jr. 2001. Climate Changes; Society Has to Learn to Adapt, The Albuquerque Journal, August 5.
Sarewitz, D. 2000. Death Takes No Holiday, Review of False Hopes, by D. Callahan, and The Missing Moment, by R. Pollack, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, v. 25 (4), pp. 988-991.
Pielke, Jr., R. A. and D. Sarewitz 2000. Anyone for Global Warming? The Washington Times, February 2, p. A17.