He was an inaugural member of the management board and scientific committee of the European Environment Agency, (EEA), (1994-2000) and a special adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select committee Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000).
[1] Wynne was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science in 2010.
[1] Archived 6 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine In Wynne's contribution May the Sheep Safely Graze?
to the book Risk, Environment and Modernity (1995),[2] he elaborates on the responses of sheep farmers in Cumbria, who had been subjected to administrative restrictions because of radioactive contamination, allegedly caused by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986.
The sheep farmers suffered economical losses, and it turned out that the source of radioactivity was actually the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing complex; thus, the experts who were responsible for the duration of the restrictions were mistaken.