"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.
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.
In this age of debate it is not news that what constitutes “truth” is often at issue in environmental debates. Michael S. Carolan and Michael M. Bell argue that truth depends essentially on social relations - relations that involve power and knowledge, to be sure, but also identity.
In this article, Jozef Keulartz, Henny van der Windt, and Jacques Swart examine the role of concepts of nature as communicative devices in public debates and political decision-making.
This paper explores the social and political factors that historically limited the national nature conservation movement’s influence in Japan, and outlines recent developments which may lead to both a greater emphasis on the greater participation of non-governmental organisations in the political process, and a greater emphasis on the protection of the natural environment.
The authors promote the idea of “Natural Governance” as a new approach to conservation based on three pillars, namely ecology, cooperation, and cultural systems.