Sally Eden
Biographic Data
| ID | 118673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Eden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Eden |
| SIGNATURE | EDEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1753-1313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 539 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Environmental Science
Environmental science is a wide field of research that examines all aspects of how environments develop, change, and are impacted by human activity. This includes work on the basic principles of environmental processes and change, but also applied research into policy‐relevant issues, such as climate change and pollution, as well as human–environment research into how human activity impacts on the environment and how this impact might be ameliora…
Environmental Issues and Public Understanding
Public understanding of environmental issues is complex and may develop in situ through embodied, sensory practices of walking through local environments, through tourist encounters with unfamiliar environments, or ex situ through formal education or entertainment, such as movies or Internet videos. Science, the media, and environmental pressure groups also influence how people think about environmental issues. Research into public understanding …
Environmental Restoration
“Environmental restoration” and “ecological restoration” refer to a range of methods that aim to repair human damage to ecosystems and landscapes. These include removing or reintroducing species, redirecting river channels, re‐establishing flooding regimes, and replanting woodland. Other terms used are “environmental rehabilitation” when restoration is only partial, “restoration ecology” when restoration is used in scientific research, and “rewil…
Material geographies of household sustainability: Household sustainability: challenges and dilemmas in everyday life
These two books set out with the premise that the household is under-researched in relation to sustainability and climate change and thus deserving of more and better conceptualisation. They also e
Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle
This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups. Through interactive exchanges in digital (online posts) and material (consumer items) modes, Freecycling blurs three common binaries in analyses of consumption: (1) consumption/production, (2) digital/material and (3) mainstream/alternative. Drawing on Ritzer’s notion of ‘implosions’ as well as practice theory, I show t…
Out of the comfort zone: Enhancing work-based learning about employability through student reflection on work placements
This paper examines the work-based learning about employability reported by 26 undergraduate Geography and Environmental Management students on part-time, unpaid work placements. The students' “reflective essays” emphasized their learning more in terms of emotional challenges than in terms of skills, as being pushed out of their “comfort zone” forced them to be more proactive, tackle unfamiliar activities and develop emotionally. This conceptuali…
More‐than‐urban ecosystems, socioecological flows and the problems with boundaries: A response to Francis et al . (2012)
Counting fish: Performative data, anglers’ knowledge-practices and environmental measurement
The Good, the Bad, and the Hands-on: Constructs of Public Participation, Anglers, and Lay Management of Water Environments
We use a qualitative study of recreational anglers in northern England to explore constructions of 'the public' in environmental management. We examine good and bad constructs of 'the public' and show how they emphasise knowledge over practice. We argue for a more differentiated view of the public through 'environmental engagement' which will appreciate more fully ways in which both 'specialised publics' and 'performative publics' are imagined an…
The Standby Generation: Electricity Low-Power Mode and Sociotechnical Change
Food labels as boundary objects: How consumers make sense of organic and functional foods
This paper considers how consumers make sense of food labeling, drawing on a qualitative, empirical study in England. I look in detail at two examples of labeling: 1) food certified as produced by organic methods and 2) functional food claimed to be beneficial for human health, especially probiotic and cholesterol-lowering products. I use the concept of “boundary objects” to demonstrate how such labels are intended to work between the worlds of f…
Models of equilibrium, natural agency and environmental change: Lay ecologies in UK recreational angling
This paper studies how anglers in northern England invoke models of equilibrium and ‘the balance of nature’ in making sense of the water environments where they regularly fish, and how they use these models as norms or ideals when designing environmental management, alongside an emphasis on natural agency and unpredictability. Like other publics, anglers are shown to be a heterogeneous group in how they think about nature and their ‘lay ecologies…
Thinking like a Fish? Engaging with Nonhuman Difference through Recreational Angling
This paper investigates how recreational anglers make sense of, and engage with, fish behaviour over space and time. Drawing on fieldwork conducted around rivers in Yorkshire, UK, it explores how anglers differently categorise and differentiate between fish through their fishing practices. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's notion of becoming-animal, and attentive to Haraway's concerns for "beings-in-encounter", the paper examines angling as a tra…
Reading the river through 'watercraft: Environmental Engagement Through Knowledge and Practice in Freshwater Angling
This paper examines how freshwater anglers in northern England 'read' rivers as landscapes and work with them relationally, through various sorts of embodied knowledge-practices, as part of their angling activity: processes that they call 'watercraft'. We focus specifically on water as an environment that anglers encounter as a different world: unlike land and air, water is not an everyday medium in which humans (as terrestrial animals) live and …
Outdoors versus indoors? Angling ponds, climbing walls and changing expectations of environmental leisure
This paper compares two types of purpose‐built recreational space – indoor climbing walls and outdoor fishing ponds – using participant observation and interviews with climbers and anglers in England. We show how these notionally ‘indoor’ and ‘outdoor’ spaces have strong similarities in terms of how they are used and perceived. We draw on literature about consumption and technology to demonstrate changing expectations and social norms about using…
Environmental Solutions
There is no abstract for this paper
The sceptical consumer? Exploring views about food assurance
The work of environmental governance networks: Traceability, credibility and certification by the Forest Stewardship Council
Making space for fish: The Regional, Network and Fluid Spaces of Fisheries Certification
In this paper, we examine the multiple spatialities of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifications. The MSC uses its ecolabelling scheme to promote sustainable fisheries management; its logo may be used on the products of certified fisheries. The certification process involves the definition of a ‘fishery’. This involves the designation of boundaries around a particular location. While these boundaries suggest exclusivity for each fishery, th…
Being Fieldworthy: Environmental Knowledge Practices and the Space of the Field in Forest Certification
This paper considers how environmental knowledge practices and learning are coproduced through heterogeneous assemblages of inscriptions, devices, skills, ecologies, and people in the field. Drawing on concepts from science and technology studies, I use the certification processes of the Forest Stewardship Council as an example, because its processes of verification through embodied and emplaced fieldwork explicitly seek to make abstract standard…
Mucky carrots and other proxies: Problematising the knowledge-fix for sustainable and ethical consumption
Green Groups and Grey Areas: Scientific Boundary-Work, Nongovernmental Organisations, and Environmental Knowledge
In this paper we examine the role of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in debates about environmental science and knowledge, using empirical evidence from in-depth interviews with a range of NGOs involved in the waste debate in the United Kingdom. We discuss theoretical issues of scientific boundary-work and the construction of expertise and socially distributed knowledge, and then apply these to our empirical evidence. Our conclusions are tha…
Green, gold and grey geography: Legitimating academic and policy expertise
Structuring subjectivities? Using Q methodology in human geography
This paper presents a critical and reflexive account of using Q methodology in human geography. Q methodology has a long pedigree in psychological, political and sociological research, but is only recently beginning to be used by human geographers. We discuss, in particular, the parts of the process(es) of Q methodology that are often glossed over in the literature, through reflecting on our learning in using Q within a project examining the use …
Greenpeace
Thinking like a Fish? Engaging with Nonhuman Difference through Recreational Angling
This paper investigates how recreational anglers make sense of, and engage with, fish behaviour over space and time. Drawing on fieldwork conducted around rivers in Yorkshire, UK, it explores how anglers differently categorise and differentiate between fish through their fishing practices. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's notion of becoming-animal, and attentive to Haraway's concerns for "beings-in-encounter", the paper examines angling as a tra…
Making space for fish: The Regional, Network and Fluid Spaces of Fisheries Certification
In this paper, we examine the multiple spatialities of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifications. The MSC uses its ecolabelling scheme to promote sustainable fisheries management; its logo may be used on the products of certified fisheries. The certification process involves the definition of a ‘fishery’. This involves the designation of boundaries around a particular location. While these boundaries suggest exclusivity for each fishery, th…
Mucky carrots and other proxies: Problematising the knowledge-fix for sustainable and ethical consumption
Translating nature: River Restoration as Nature - Culture
In this paper we examine the process of river restoration at the river Cole in southern England. We argue that analysing such environmental transformations as actor-network translations or 'nature-cultures' can provide an integrative perspective on the process of restoration and its intertwining of natural and human actors and help to avoid the traps of defining 'nature' and separating it from society; traps which open up before environmental phi…
The work of environmental governance networks: Traceability, credibility and certification by the Forest Stewardship Council
Environmental issues: Knowledge, uncertainty and the environment
Environmental issues have now surfaced in all the social sciences, especially geography, sociology and political science. Yet the unbounded character of the environment has evaded territorialization, resulting in an increasingly expanding and multidisciplinary field of inquiry, too wide to be easily traversed in a progress report like this. Many of the issues which are ‘environmental ’ are also ‘cultural’, ‘economic’, ‘social ’ and ‘rural’, and t…
Structuring subjectivities? Using Q methodology in human geography
This paper presents a critical and reflexive account of using Q methodology in human geography. Q methodology has a long pedigree in psychological, political and sociological research, but is only recently beginning to be used by human geographers. We discuss, in particular, the parts of the process(es) of Q methodology that are often glossed over in the literature, through reflecting on our learning in using Q within a project examining the use …
Individual Environmental Responsibility and its Role in Public Environmentalism
Individual environmental responsibility has been used by business and government in promoting public environmentalism through, for example, green consumerism, passive membership of environmental groups, and domestic recycling. Such responsibility has not yet been adequately addressed in academic work, although associated concepts of environmental concern, values, and behaviour have been studied in the last two decades. The author therefore looks …
Reading the river through 'watercraft: Environmental Engagement Through Knowledge and Practice in Freshwater Angling
This paper examines how freshwater anglers in northern England 'read' rivers as landscapes and work with them relationally, through various sorts of embodied knowledge-practices, as part of their angling activity: processes that they call 'watercraft'. We focus specifically on water as an environment that anglers encounter as a different world: unlike land and air, water is not an everyday medium in which humans (as terrestrial animals) live and …
Green Groups and Grey Areas: Scientific Boundary-Work, Nongovernmental Organisations, and Environmental Knowledge
In this paper we examine the role of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in debates about environmental science and knowledge, using empirical evidence from in-depth interviews with a range of NGOs involved in the waste debate in the United Kingdom. We discuss theoretical issues of scientific boundary-work and the construction of expertise and socially distributed knowledge, and then apply these to our empirical evidence. Our conclusions are tha…
Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle
This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups. Through interactive exchanges in digital (online posts) and material (consumer items) modes, Freecycling blurs three common binaries in analyses of consumption: (1) consumption/production, (2) digital/material and (3) mainstream/alternative. Drawing on Ritzer’s notion of ‘implosions’ as well as practice theory, I show t…
Being Fieldworthy: Environmental Knowledge Practices and the Space of the Field in Forest Certification
This paper considers how environmental knowledge practices and learning are coproduced through heterogeneous assemblages of inscriptions, devices, skills, ecologies, and people in the field. Drawing on concepts from science and technology studies, I use the certification processes of the Forest Stewardship Council as an example, because its processes of verification through embodied and emplaced fieldwork explicitly seek to make abstract standard…
Using sustainable developmentThe business case
The sceptical consumer? Exploring views about food assurance
Green, gold and grey geography: Legitimating academic and policy expertise
Counting fish: Performative data, anglers’ knowledge-practices and environmental measurement
Outdoors versus indoors? Angling ponds, climbing walls and changing expectations of environmental leisure
This paper compares two types of purpose‐built recreational space – indoor climbing walls and outdoor fishing ponds – using participant observation and interviews with climbers and anglers in England. We show how these notionally ‘indoor’ and ‘outdoor’ spaces have strong similarities in terms of how they are used and perceived. We draw on literature about consumption and technology to demonstrate changing expectations and social norms about using…
Models of equilibrium, natural agency and environmental change: Lay ecologies in UK recreational angling
This paper studies how anglers in northern England invoke models of equilibrium and ‘the balance of nature’ in making sense of the water environments where they regularly fish, and how they use these models as norms or ideals when designing environmental management, alongside an emphasis on natural agency and unpredictability. Like other publics, anglers are shown to be a heterogeneous group in how they think about nature and their ‘lay ecologies…
Environmental issues: Nature versus the environment
Faking it? The multiple meanings of environmental restoration near Twyford Down
Resistance to the construction of a new motorway link through Twyford Down in the 1990s made the name of this small part of Hampshire, England, symbolic of contemporary environmental protest in Britain. But a little-known part of the story concerns the use of environmental restoration by proponents and opponents of the new road. This paper investigates how the 'restoration rhetoric' was used in the Twyford Down case and also how it was translated…
We Have the Facts'-How Business Claims Legitimacy in the Environmental Debate
The author examines how business associations legitimate their input to environmental policy as 'rational' and how they exclude others from the policy debate by characterising them as 'nonrational'. This is compared with the theories of reflexive modernisation, such as Beck's, and with ecological modernisation. With the aid of an empirical case study of business associations and their environmental lobbying, the author shows how business associat…
The Good, the Bad, and the Hands-on: Constructs of Public Participation, Anglers, and Lay Management of Water Environments
We use a qualitative study of recreational anglers in northern England to explore constructions of 'the public' in environmental management. We examine good and bad constructs of 'the public' and show how they emphasise knowledge over practice. We argue for a more differentiated view of the public through 'environmental engagement' which will appreciate more fully ways in which both 'specialised publics' and 'performative publics' are imagined an…
Environmental restoration: Environmental management or environmental threat
This paper compares the ethical and political issues raised by two environmental restoration schemes in England: those of the River Skerne and the A33 near Twyford Down. Neither example fully restores a ‘natural’ condition, nor tries to, but both raise questions about how far restoration is an acceptable option for environmental management
Constructing environmental responsibility: Perceptions from retail business
Greenpeace
Constructing environmental responsibility: Perceptions from retail business
Individual Environmental Responsibility and its Role in Public Environmentalism
Individual environmental responsibility has been used by business and government in promoting public environmentalism through, for example, green consumerism, passive membership of environmental groups, and domestic recycling. Such responsibility has not yet been adequately addressed in academic work, although associated concepts of environmental concern, values, and behaviour have been studied in the last two decades. The author therefore looks …
Using sustainable developmentThe business case
The politics of nature: Explorations in green political theory
Public participation in environmental policy: Considering scientific, counter-scientific and non-scientific contributions
Environmental policy depends for its success on public participation. However, the scientific construction of environmental issues often means that such participation in policy-making is difficult when the public is not considered scientifically `expert'. Even if the notion of `expertise' is broadened to deal with this problem, this does not ensure truly `public'—i.e. lay—involvement, because lay ideas are still not included but are discounted as…
The politics of packaging in the UK: Business, government and self-regulation in environmental policy
European and domestic pressures in 1993 prompted the UK Secretary of State for the Environment to call for direct business involvement in the formulation and implementation of a packaging policy in the UK. Conflicts have arisen both between government and business and within business over the means to achieve agreed packaging recovery targets set by that policy. Because of these conflicts and the consequent lack of business consensus, business ch…
Environmental issues: Knowledge, uncertainty and the environment
Environmental issues have now surfaced in all the social sciences, especially geography, sociology and political science. Yet the unbounded character of the environment has evaded territorialization, resulting in an increasingly expanding and multidisciplinary field of inquiry, too wide to be easily traversed in a progress report like this. Many of the issues which are ‘environmental ’ are also ‘cultural’, ‘economic’, ‘social ’ and ‘rural’, and t…
Environmental restoration: Environmental management or environmental threat
This paper compares the ethical and political issues raised by two environmental restoration schemes in England: those of the River Skerne and the A33 near Twyford Down. Neither example fully restores a ‘natural’ condition, nor tries to, but both raise questions about how far restoration is an acceptable option for environmental management
We Have the Facts'-How Business Claims Legitimacy in the Environmental Debate
The author examines how business associations legitimate their input to environmental policy as 'rational' and how they exclude others from the policy debate by characterising them as 'nonrational'. This is compared with the theories of reflexive modernisation, such as Beck's, and with ecological modernisation. With the aid of an empirical case study of business associations and their environmental lobbying, the author shows how business associat…
Environmental issues: Sustainable progress
Translating nature: River Restoration as Nature - Culture
In this paper we examine the process of river restoration at the river Cole in southern England. We argue that analysing such environmental transformations as actor-network translations or 'nature-cultures' can provide an integrative perspective on the process of restoration and its intertwining of natural and human actors and help to avoid the traps of defining 'nature' and separating it from society; traps which open up before environmental phi…
Translating nature: River Restoration as Nature-Culture
In this paper we examine the process of river restoration at the river Cole in southern England. We argue that analysing such environmental transformations as actor-network translations or 'nature-cultures' can provide an integrative perspective on the process of restoration and its intertwining of natural and human actors and help to avoid the traps of defining 'nature' and separating it from society; traps which open up before environmental phi…
Environmental issues: Nature versus the environment
Faking it? The multiple meanings of environmental restoration near Twyford Down
Resistance to the construction of a new motorway link through Twyford Down in the 1990s made the name of this small part of Hampshire, England, symbolic of contemporary environmental protest in Britain. But a little-known part of the story concerns the use of environmental restoration by proponents and opponents of the new road. This paper investigates how the 'restoration rhetoric' was used in the Twyford Down case and also how it was translated…
Greenpeace
Green, gold and grey geography: Legitimating academic and policy expertise
Structuring subjectivities? Using Q methodology in human geography
This paper presents a critical and reflexive account of using Q methodology in human geography. Q methodology has a long pedigree in psychological, political and sociological research, but is only recently beginning to be used by human geographers. We discuss, in particular, the parts of the process(es) of Q methodology that are often glossed over in the literature, through reflecting on our learning in using Q within a project examining the use …
Green Groups and Grey Areas: Scientific Boundary-Work, Nongovernmental Organisations, and Environmental Knowledge
In this paper we examine the role of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in debates about environmental science and knowledge, using empirical evidence from in-depth interviews with a range of NGOs involved in the waste debate in the United Kingdom. We discuss theoretical issues of scientific boundary-work and the construction of expertise and socially distributed knowledge, and then apply these to our empirical evidence. Our conclusions are tha…
Mucky carrots and other proxies: Problematising the knowledge-fix for sustainable and ethical consumption
The sceptical consumer? Exploring views about food assurance
The work of environmental governance networks: Traceability, credibility and certification by the Forest Stewardship Council
Making space for fish: The Regional, Network and Fluid Spaces of Fisheries Certification
In this paper, we examine the multiple spatialities of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifications. The MSC uses its ecolabelling scheme to promote sustainable fisheries management; its logo may be used on the products of certified fisheries. The certification process involves the definition of a ‘fishery’. This involves the designation of boundaries around a particular location. While these boundaries suggest exclusivity for each fishery, th…
Being Fieldworthy: Environmental Knowledge Practices and the Space of the Field in Forest Certification
This paper considers how environmental knowledge practices and learning are coproduced through heterogeneous assemblages of inscriptions, devices, skills, ecologies, and people in the field. Drawing on concepts from science and technology studies, I use the certification processes of the Forest Stewardship Council as an example, because its processes of verification through embodied and emplaced fieldwork explicitly seek to make abstract standard…
Environmental Solutions
There is no abstract for this paper
Outdoors versus indoors? Angling ponds, climbing walls and changing expectations of environmental leisure
This paper compares two types of purpose‐built recreational space – indoor climbing walls and outdoor fishing ponds – using participant observation and interviews with climbers and anglers in England. We show how these notionally ‘indoor’ and ‘outdoor’ spaces have strong similarities in terms of how they are used and perceived. We draw on literature about consumption and technology to demonstrate changing expectations and social norms about using…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (23 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Environmental ethics (15 works) · Environmental Science (14 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works)