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"Industrial Food for Thought: Timescapes of Risk"
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
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"Risk and Trust: The Performative Dimension"
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.
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"Globalisation, Environmental Degradation and Ulrich Beck's Risk Society"
Brent K. Marshall discusses globalization, environmental degradation, and Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society.”
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Grove-White, Robin, "Afterword: On 'Sound Science', the Environment, and Political Authority"
Robin Grove-White writes an afterword on this special issue of Environmental Values.
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"The Moral Status of Beings who are not Persons: A Casuistic Argument"
Jon Wetlesen addresses the question: Who or what can have a moral status in the sense that we have direct moral duties to them?
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"Public Attitudes to Contingent Valuation and Public Consultation"
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.
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"Emotion, Science and Rationality: The Case of the Brent Spar"
Mark Huxham and David Sumner assess the case of the Brent Spar, discussing some of the lessons that should be learnt from the incident by policy makers and scientists.
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"The Disparate Roots of Voluntary Modesty"
Hana Librová discusses the disparate roots of voluntary modesty.
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"The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics"
Clive L. Spash traces the thinking of a sub-group of established economists trying to convey an environmental critique of the mainstream into the late 20th century, via the development of associations and journals in the USA and Europe.
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"Nature is Already Sacred"
Kay Milton shows that the idea that humans see nature as sacred, and the acknowledgment that humanity is a part of nature rather than separate from it are two concepts that are incompatible in the context of western culture.