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"Aquaphobia, Tulipmania, Biophilia: A Moral Geography of the Dutch Landscape"
In this article, Hub Zwart discusses the emergence of a cultivated landscape in the Netherlands.
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"Preferences in their Place"
James Lenman discusses cost-benefit analysis techniques.
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"Participation and Environmental Governance: Consensus, Ambivalence and Debate"
In the introduction to this issue of Environmental Values on “Environment, Policy and Participation,” Harriet Bulkeley and Arthur P.J. Mol outline some features of these recent developments in participatory environmental governance, indicate some key questions that arise, and give an overview of the collection of papers in this special issue.
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"Environment and Participation in a Context of Political Modernisation"
This article discusses the relation between environment and participation in the context of different stages of political modernisation.
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"Environmental Organisations in New Forms of Political Participation: Ecological Modernisation and the Making of Voluntary Rules"
In this article, Magnus Bostrom analyses the role of envrionmental organisations since the early 1960s.
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"Uncertainty and Participatory Democracy"
The article deals with some implications of radical uncertainty for participatory democracy, and more precisely for Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA).
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"In Truth We Trust: Discourse, Phenomenology, and the Social Relations of Knowledge in an Environmental Dispute"
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.
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Yearley, Steve, Steve Cinderby, John Forrester, Peter Bailey, and Paul Rosen, "Participatory Modelling and the Local Governance of the Politics of UK Air Pollution: A Three-City Case Study"
While some have argued that, in democratic societies, people simply have a right to a participatory role, others base arguments for public participation on the idea that lay people may have access to knowledge which is unknown to officially sanctioned experts. This paper reports on a novel empirical approach called “participatory modelling” to analyse and capture such “lay” understandings.
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Johnson, Baylor L., "Ethical Obligations in a Tragedy of the Commons"
In this article, Baylor L. Johnson argues that in a tragedy of the commons there is no reasonable expectation that individual, voluntary action will succeed.
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"Sustainability and the 'Struggle for Existence': The Critical Role of Metaphor in Society's Metabolism"
Tim Jackson examines the influence of the Darwinian metaphor “the struggle for existence” on a variety of scientific theories which inform our current understanding of the prospects for sustainable development.