"Sustainabilty: An Interdisciplinary Guide"
An evolutionary analysis of history suggests that technology and morality can and will respond to a clearly perceived future threat to civilization. But will our response be fast enough?
An evolutionary analysis of history suggests that technology and morality can and will respond to a clearly perceived future threat to civilization. But will our response be fast enough?
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
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.
The essay examines local resistance to the New Deal rural electrification program in the United States before World War II as a crucial aspect of socio-technical change.
In this article, David E. Cooper discusses Heidegger’s view on nature.
This article sketches the contours of the emerging paradigm: a complementary system of traditional and modern methods of water provision, a participatory water resources management and a ‘post-mechanistic’ ethico-religious framework.
The paper highlights shortcomings in GMO public consultation practices in the European Union and in one of its member countries, Finland. Specifically, they do not serve democracy, increase consensus, enable better decisions to be made, or establish trust.
This paper demonstrates how a Political Economy of Wealth—an analytical framework inspired from Ricardo’s and Marx’s theories of value—strengthens the analytical force of Socio-Ecological Economics in the context of the controversy over the value of nature.
This article reflects on Aristotle’s conceptions of friendship and goodwill and if they can serve as a model for a virtuous relationship with nature.