Brian Baxter responds to Onora O’Neill’s argument that environmental ethics could and should be reformulated in terms of a search for the obligations held by moral agents towards each other, with respect to the non-human world.
Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
Jost Halfmann illustrates the differences between images of risk by comparing the American and German anti-nuclear movements.
Andrew Jamison and Erik Baark attempt to indicate how national cultural differences affect the ways in which science and technology policies in the environmental field are formulated and implemented.
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
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.
Brent K. Marshall discusses globalization, environmental degradation, and Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society.”
Robin Grove-White writes an afterword on this special issue of Environmental Values.
