"Biodiversity as the Source of Biological Resources"
Paul M. Wood discusses biodiversity as the source of biological resources.
Paul M. Wood discusses biodiversity as the source of biological resources.
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
Andrew Jamison and Erik Baark attempt to indicate how national cultural differences affect the ways in which science and technology policies in the environmental field are formulated and implemented.
Mark Huxham and David Sumner assess the case of the Brent Spar, discussing some of the lessons that should be learnt from the incident by policy makers and scientists.
Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.
Yvonne Rydin examines the different ways in which the significance of environmental discourse is recognized, analyzing its influence.
Peter S. Wenz analyses the notion of efficiency and argues that transportation policies that environmentalists favour—substitution of intercity rail and urban mass transit for most automotive forms of transport—are both efficient and just.
Clark A. Miller proposes four models of societal processes by which framing occurs, concluding with ideas for further research.
Marian K. Deblonde outlines the case for an economic paradigm that differs from conventional (i.e. neo-classical welfare) environmental economics, arguing that an alternative paradigm demands a different interpretation of economic “objectivity.”
The article deals with some implications of radical uncertainty for participatory democracy, and more precisely for Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA).