"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.
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.