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This article discusses the relation between environment and participation in the context of different stages of political modernisation.

This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge.

Sheila Jasanoff analyses the four mechanisms that according to her have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements.

Victoria Davion critiques a conception of intelligence central in AI, and a related concept of reason central in moral philosophy, from an ecological feminist perspective.

In this paper, Tony Lynch and David Wells argue that environmental politics needs more than piecemeal institutional efforts or calls for a set of ‘new’ values and that is a realistic, comprehensive, and effective policy programme.

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.

Miller suggests a new heuristic, the ecology of freedom, which highlights past contingency and hope, and can furthermore help guide our present efforts, both scholastic and activist, to find an honorable, just way of living on the earth.

This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.

Jouni Paavola’s editorial for the Environmental Values 17.

Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.