"Editorial Introduction: Risk, Culture and Social Theory in Comparative Perspective"
Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.
Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
Jost Halfmann illustrates the differences between images of risk by comparing the American and German anti-nuclear movements.
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
Brent K. Marshall discusses globalization, environmental degradation, and Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society.”
Robin Grove-White writes an afterword on this special issue of Environmental Values.
The aim of this paper is to consider more closely how uncertainty affects our moral responsibility to future generations, and to what extent moral agents can be held responsible for activities that inflict risks on future people.
In their article, William R. Sheate and J. Ivan Scrase argue that for a risk-oriented framing to succeed, new assumptions about causation and a new ethical outlook are now needed.
Using a case of mad cow disease in the United States, this paper argues, statements of risk are ultimately social products that come to us by way of translation.