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''Experts: The knowledge and power of expertise'' got positive reviews e.g. in socialnet.de.<ref>Thorsten Benkel University of Passau) 10.15.2010 review of: Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann: Expertenwissen. Velbrück Wissenschaft (Weilerswist) 2010. In: socialnet Rezensionen, ISSN 2190-9245, http://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/10190.php, access 09.05.2015</ref> [[Perlentaucher]] mentioned e.g. a positive review of [[:de:Alexander Kissler|Alexander Kissler]] in [[Süddeutsche Zeitung]], stating Stehr and Grundmann would have successfully started ''to plough a new field''.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Reiner Grundmann / Nico Stehr: Expertenwissen. Die Kultur und die Macht von Experten, Beratern und Ratgebern - Perlentaucher|url = https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/reiner-grundmann-nico-stehr/expertenwissen.html|website = www.perlentaucher.de|accessdate = 2015-05-09}}</ref> Climate change is a prominent current case which highlights the question about knowledge and decision making. Grundmann thinks that there exists a mistaken belief that the presence of a [[scientific consensus]] will enable ambitious climate policies. He considers that a much praised study overstates the case for scientific consensus.<ref>Cook et al., Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature [http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article]</ref> Grundmann is in line with main STS scholars view that science hardly determines policy outcomes.<ref>{{citation/core|Periodical=Social Studies of Science|Title=The Third Wave of Science Studies Studies of Expertise and Experience |Volume=32|Issue=2|Year=04/01/2002|At=pp.&nbsp;235-296|ISSN=0306-3127|Date= 04/01/2002|language=German|DOI=10.1177/0306312702032002003|URL=http://sss.sagepub.com/content/32/2/235|AccessDate=2015-05-12}}</ref> Examples such [[acid rain]] ,<ref>Maarten A. Hajer, The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process, 1995. {{ISBN |9780198293330}}</ref> [[smoking ban|smoking regulations]],<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Grundmann | first1 = Reiner | year = 2013 | title = Debunking sceptical propaganda - Book review | url = | journal = BioSocieties | volume = 8 | issue = | pages = 370–374 | doi = 10.1057/biosoc.2013.15 }}</ref> [[ozone depleting]] substances, [[genetically modified foods]]<ref>Susan Wright, Molecular Politics: Developing American and British Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering, 1972-1982 (1994). {{ISBN |9780226910659}}</ref> show how cultural, economic and political issues exercised a strong influence. Conversely, the presence of an international science consensus (through the IPCC) has led to different national policies, none of which is on track to achieving the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions that the [[IPCC Summary for Policymakers]] postulate as necessary.<ref>Reiner Grundmann (2005) Ozone and Climate: Scientific consensus and leadership, Science, Technology, and Human Values 31(1): 73-101</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.ipcc14.de/berichte-1/ipcc-arbeitsgruppe-3/145-arbeitsgruppe-drei-veroeffentlicht-ergebnisse|title = IPCC Working group III|last = Schwarz|first = Susanne|date = 13 April 2014|work = |accessdate = }}</ref>

* (1991) Marxism and Ecology. Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]]. {{ISBN |0198273142}}

* (1999) Transnationale Umweltpolitik zum Schutz der Ozonschicht. USA und Deutschland im Vergleich. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus. {{ISBN |3-593-36222-8}}

** (2001) Transnational Environmental Policy: Reconstructing Ozone. London: Routledge. {{ISBN |0415224233}}

* (2001) Werner Sombart. Economic Life in the Modern Age, edited and introduced by Nico Stehr and Reiner Grundmann, New Brunswick, N.J.; Oxford: [[Transaction Books]]. {{ISBN |0765800306}}.

* (2011) Die Macht der Erkenntnis. Berlin: [[Suhrkamp Verlag|Suhrkamp]]. {{ISBN |978-3-518-29590-8}} (with Nico Stehr).

** In English (2012) The Power of Scientific Knowledge. From Research to Public Policy. Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]]. {{ISBN |978-1-107022-72-0}} (with Nico Stehr).

** In Russian: Власть научного значения, Aletheia Publishers, Sankt Petersburg,{{ISBN |978-5-9905769-3-3}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.zu.de/universitaet/presse/publikationen/stehr-macht-wiss-erkenntnisse.php|title = Publikation auf Russisch erschienen!|date = |accessdate = |website = Zeppelin university|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>

* (2010) Expertenwissen: Die Kultur und die Macht von Experten, Beratern und Ratgebern. Frankfurt am Main: [[:de:Velbrück Wissenschaft|Velbrueck]]. {{ISBN |978-3-938808-82-5}} (with Nico Stehr).

** In English: Experts: The knowledge and power of expertise. London: Routledge. {{ISBN |978-0-415-60803-9}} (with Nico Stehr).<ref>{{cite journal | title=BOOK REVIEW/COMPTE RENDU. Nico Stehr and Reiner Grundmann. Experts: The Know- ledge and Power of Expertise. | author=Nathan Young |journal = Canadian Journal of Sociology |volume=36 | year=2011 | issue=3}}</ref>

* (2008) Society: Critical Concepts (4 vols.) London: [[Routledge]]. {{ISBN |0415426561}} (edited with Nico Stehr).

* (2005) Knowledge: Critical Concepts (5 vols). London: Routledge. {{ISBN |0415317363}} (edited with Nico Stehr).