technology

Soft Energy Paths serves as an important historic milestone: an intelligent and convincing argument for conservation and the use of renewable energy.

Energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the United States off oil and coal by 2050 cheaply and easily, by integrating sectors as well as innovations.

The essay examines local resistance to the New Deal rural electrification program in the United States before World War II as a crucial aspect of socio-technical change.

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.

In this article, David E. Cooper discusses Heidegger’s view on nature.

Walker focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation.

Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).

Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.

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.

Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.