"Selling the Space Age: NASA and Earth's Environment, 1958–1990"
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
It is widely assumed that modern environmentalist thinking was imported into post-communist states such as the Czech Republic post 1989. This paper shows these countries had environmental traditions of their own.
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
Carrie L. Hull discusses debates taking place among environmental scientists, providing a brief overview of the history of the formalist tendency in philosophy, and an illustration of the ways in which advocates of a strict laboratory methodology implicitly rely on this foundation.
Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.
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.
Kay Milton shows that the idea that humans see nature as sacred, and the acknowledgment that humanity is a part of nature rather than separate from it are two concepts that are incompatible in the context of western culture.
Clark A. Miller proposes four models of societal processes by which framing occurs, concluding with ideas for further research.