Links between geodiversity and biodiversity - and some interesting examples for countries such as Colombia. K. E. Parks and M. Mulligan (2011) On the relationship between a resource based measure of geodiversity and broad scale biodiversity patterns Biodiversity and Conservation 19, Number 9, 2751-2766, DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9876-z
An interview with John Beddington on science advice, public engagement, risk and science policy. Final emphasis on climate change. Not sure that I agree with his view of media caution and chemical regulation in the environment: although it is true to say that there is a heavy emphasis on hazard derived from laboratory information, the problem with using risk effectively is that data to allow good calculation of environmental risk are difficult to obtain (although much better in the past couple of decades), particularly when thinking of the combined effects of different chemicals in the environment. The emphasis on hazard has come about not solely as a result of public attitudes - negative impacts of regulation by risk based on lab data in the past has been problematic.
An update on evaluations of public discourse/citizen science from ScienceWise ERC - synthetic biology from EPSRC/BBSRC and animals containing human material from the Academy of Medical Sciences.
