"Emotion, Science and Rationality: The Case of the Brent Spar"
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.
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"The Lack of Clarity in the Precautionary Principle"
This paper builds on the work of Neil A. Manson arguing that the precautionary principle is fraught with vagueness and ambiguity.
"Re-Negotiating Science in Environmentalists' Submissions to New Zealand's Royal Commission on Genetic Modification"
In this paper Tee Rogers-Hayden and John R. Campbell use the case of New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Genetic Modification to explore the application of science discourses as used by environmental groups.
"Education, the Interpretive Agenda of Science, and the Obligation of Scientists to Promote this Agenda"
Warwick Fox discusses education and the obligations of scientists to promote intepretive agendas.
"In and Out of Time"
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
Prodigality and Sustainability: The Natural Sciences and the Environment
Over time, the peoples living in Latin America’s diverse landscapes have developed complex and varied ways of understanding the world around them. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main goal of the sciences was to keep Latin America’s “prodigal” landscapes as productive as possible. Since the mid-twentieth century, a new countercurrent has emerged, which focuses on using science to conserve biological diversity, and to promote sustainability.
Thinking with Birds
This article looks at three approaches through history of humans to birds.
Adventures in Gondwana: Science in the South
This article looks at how scientific theories—in particular those of South African statesman Jan Smuts—sought to reorient the position of Africa in a global, historic hierarchy.
Biography and Scientific Endeavour
This article looks at how environmental life histories have been used for particular purposes.
History and the Neurocentric Age
This article is a critique of Daniel Lord Smail’s book On Deep History and the Brain.