"New Modernities: Reimagining Science, Technology and Development"
Sheila Jasanoff analyses the four mechanisms that according to her have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements.
Sheila Jasanoff analyses the four mechanisms that according to her have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements.
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge.
In this paper, Michael Haley and Anthony Clayton discuss the role of NGOs in environmental policy failures in Jamaica.
This paper adopts a social constructionist perspective to examine how the biodiversity “claim” is constructed and contested at local level.
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.
This article discusses the relation between environment and participation in the context of different stages of political modernisation.
The article deals with some implications of radical uncertainty for participatory democracy, and more precisely for Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA).
This essay explores three case studies that illustrate the exemplary use of economic analysis in environmental decision-making.
This essay argues that reproductive liberty should not be considered a fundamental human right, or certainly not an indefeasible right, but that it should, instead, be strictly regulated by a global agreement designed to reduce population to a sustainable level.
By investigating landscape change and land reform in Northwest Scotland, this study illustrates how the multifaceted concept of landscape mediates cultural, social and political issues, and is continually evolving in response to aesthetic, ideological and institutional agencies.