"Teaching and Discovering Environmental History Online"
This podcast reports on two sessions from the sixth conference of the ESEH, which took place in Turku, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2011.
This podcast reports on two sessions from the sixth conference of the ESEH, which took place in Turku, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2011.
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.
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.
Bronislaw Szerszynski explores some of the implications of attending to the performative aspects of language for the sociological understanding of issues of risk and trust among lay communities.
Roy Brouwer, Neil Powe, R. Kerry Turner, Ian J. Bateman, and Ian H. Langford outline support for both the individual WTP based approach and a participatory social deliberation approach to inform environmental decision-making processes.
Clark A. Miller proposes four models of societal processes by which framing occurs, concluding with ideas for further research.
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
In this paper, Tony Lynch and David Wells argue that environmental politics needs more than piecemeal institutional efforts or calls for a set of ‘new’ values and that is a realistic, comprehensive, and effective policy programme.