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“Social Vulnerability to Climate in the ‘Little Ice Age’: An Example from Central Europe in the Early 1770s”
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
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"Sustainability, Human Welfare and Ecosystem Health"
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
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"Humankind and the Environment: An Anatomy of Surprise and Ignorance"
The present article offers an analysis of human surprise and ignorance in the context of environmental issues.
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"The Political Economy of Environmental Movements: U.S. Experience and Global Movements"
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
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"How the Tail Wags the Dog: How Value Judgments Determine Ecological Science"
Shrader-Frechette and McCoy use examples related to preservation versus development, hunting versus animal rights, and controversies over pest control, to show that, because ecology is conceptually and theoretically underdetermined, environmental values often influence the practice of ecological science.
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"Education, the Interpretive Agenda of Science, and the Obligation of Scientists to Promote this Agenda"
Warwick Fox discusses education and the obligations of scientists to promote intepretive agendas.
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"Towards Global Environmental Values: Lessons from Western and Eastern Experience"
Philip Sarre argues that new environmental values are needed as the advanced industrial economy becomes global.
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"In and Out of Time"
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
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Jamieson, Dale, "Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine"
Dale Jamieson develops several objections to the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ in environmental policy, outlining problems in governance institutions, value structures, and knowledge systems.
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"The Emperor has no Clothes...Let us Paint our Loincloths Rainbow: A Classical and Feminist Critique of Contemporary Science Policy"
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.