"Can We Talk Ourselves into Sustainability? The Role of Discourse in the Environmental Policy Process"
Yvonne Rydin examines the different ways in which the significance of environmental discourse is recognized, analyzing its influence.
Yvonne Rydin examines the different ways in which the significance of environmental discourse is recognized, analyzing its influence.
Peter S. Wenz analyses the notion of efficiency and argues that transportation policies that environmentalists favour—substitution of intercity rail and urban mass transit for most automotive forms of transport—are both efficient and just.
Clark A. Miller proposes four models of societal processes by which framing occurs, concluding with ideas for further research.
Marian K. Deblonde outlines the case for an economic paradigm that differs from conventional (i.e. neo-classical welfare) environmental economics, arguing that an alternative paradigm demands a different interpretation of economic “objectivity.”
In their article, John O’Neill and Clive L. Splash analyse how local processes of envrionmental decision-making can enter into good policy-making processes.
The article deals with some implications of radical uncertainty for participatory democracy, and more precisely for Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA).
In his article, Alastair Iles analyzes how consumers, farmers, activists, industry, and policy-makers in the United States and Europe are building agency in making and using food miles.
In his article, Walter K. Dodds tries to answer the question of whether we can control humanity’s hitherto endless appetite for resources before we irreparably harm the global ecosystem and cause the extinction of even more species.
In this editorial, Clive L. Spash discusses current economic and political motives as well as values and beliefs surrounding environmental issues.
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.