John Adams discusses the resurgence of cost-benefit analysis and its failures relating to lack of progress and environmental damage caused by major transport projects.
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
Mark Huxham and David Sumner assess the case of the Brent Spar, discussing some of the lessons that should be learnt from the incident by policy makers and scientists.
The aim of this paper is to consider more closely how uncertainty affects our moral responsibility to future generations, and to what extent moral agents can be held responsible for activities that inflict risks on future people.
In her essay, Dana Phillips presents a analysis of Thoreau’s aesthetics and “the domain of the superlative.”
In this paper, Birgitte Nerlich and Nick Wright analyze the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis in the UK.
In this paper, Richard S. J. Tol discusses gaps in climate change research and speculates on possible sign and size of the impacts of climate change.
In this article Marc D. Davidson argues that governments are justified in addressing the potential for human induced climate damages on the basis of future generations’ rights to bodily integrity and personal property.
