"Community and Life-Chances: Risk Movements in the United States and Germany"
Jost Halfmann illustrates the differences between images of risk by comparing the American and German anti-nuclear movements.
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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.
"Decisions vs. Willingness-to-Pay in Social Choice"
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
"Can Environmental Ethics 'Solve' Environmental Problems and Save the World? Yes, but First We Must Recognise the Essential Normative Nature of Environmental Problems"
This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
"Editorial Introduction: Risk, Culture and Social Theory in Comparative Perspective"
Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.
"Industrial Food for Thought: Timescapes of Risk"
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
"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.
How Wild is Wild?
This article looks at “acclimatisation societies,” which first appeared in the nineteenth century
How to Read a Bridge
In this short article, Rob Nixon reflects on a visit to South Africa and the relationship of the various kinds of inequality present in societies.
Neuroscience and History
This article looks at neuropathology, which may shed light on the actions of individuals in power. Do leaders show a tendency to have certain neurological traits?