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"The Songlines of Risk"
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
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"Science and Society in Historical Perspective: Implications for Social Theories of Risk"
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
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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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"Humans Valuing Nature: Synthesising Insights from Philosophy, Psychology and Economics"
Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.
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“Disaster, Development and Governance: Reflections on the ‘Lessons’ of Bhopal.”
Using the case study of the Bhopal gas disaster, S. Ravi Rajan articulates a framework of questions for the next generation of research and advocacy.
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Wild Earth 8, no. 4
Wild Earth 8, no. 4 celebrates a “Wilderness Revival.” The essays present American and Canadian perspectives on wilderness and its values, wilderness politics, and wilderness campaigns both new and old.
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Wild Earth 9, no. 4
Wild Earth 9, no. 4 features visionary essays that reimagine the future. Topics include abolitionism and preservationism, the environment and the US constitution, and the Buffalo Commons.
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Wild Earth 3, no. 3
Wild Earth 3, no. 3 features articles on protecting biodiversity in the Selkirk Mountains, preserving biodiversity in caves, restoring the Wild Atlantic Salmon, and changing state forestry laws.
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Towards a Political Ecology of Scale in High Mountains
This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
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Tending the Emperor’s Garden: Modes of Human-Nature Relations in the Cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé Indians of the Lower Amazon
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.