"Tasks for Future Ecologists"
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.
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.
The present article offers an analysis of human surprise and ignorance in the context of environmental issues.
Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.
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.