Pernille Kaltoft
Biographic Data
| ID | 1668256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pernille Kaltoft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pernille |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaltoft |
| SIGNATURE | KALTOFT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Policy Analysis, Danish Environmental Research Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social identities and risk
Expert-based environmental and health risk regulation is widely believed to suffer from a lack of public understanding and legitimacy. On controversial issues such as genetically modified organisms and food-related chemicals, a “lay—expert discrepancy” in the assessment of risks is clearly visible. In this article, we analyze the relationship between scientific experts and ordinary lay citizens in the context of risks from pesticide usage in Denm…
Socio-cultural processes behind the differential distribution of organic farming in Denmark
Organic Farming in Late Modernity
The contention of this paper is that organic farming, the movement and ideology, challenges sociological theory of the nature-culture relation (environmental issues, the role of science). The idea is discussed and explored in two ways. Firstly the paper gives a 'diagnosis' of organic farming in terms of modernization. The organic farming movement is a social movement having some success in a period when the power of social movements in general se…
Values about Nature in Organic Farming Practice and Knowledge
The paper presents and discusses the empirical results of an investigation into views of nature, practices and knowledge in Danish organic farming. The study is primarily conducted as a case study of six Danish organic farms examining the explicit as well as the implicit views of nature, ethical stands, learning processes, knowledge sources and identity of the farmers expressed. These findings are related to actual manuring strategies, crops and …
Organic Farming in Late Modernity
The contention of this paper is that organic farming, the movement and ideology, challenges sociological theory of the nature-culture relation (environmental issues, the role of science). The idea is discussed and explored in two ways. Firstly the paper gives a 'diagnosis' of organic farming in terms of modernization. The organic farming movement is a social movement having some success in a period when the power of social movements in general se…
Values about Nature in Organic Farming Practice and Knowledge
The paper presents and discusses the empirical results of an investigation into views of nature, practices and knowledge in Danish organic farming. The study is primarily conducted as a case study of six Danish organic farms examining the explicit as well as the implicit views of nature, ethical stands, learning processes, knowledge sources and identity of the farmers expressed. These findings are related to actual manuring strategies, crops and …
Socio-cultural processes behind the differential distribution of organic farming in Denmark
Values about Nature in Organic Farming Practice and Knowledge
The paper presents and discusses the empirical results of an investigation into views of nature, practices and knowledge in Danish organic farming. The study is primarily conducted as a case study of six Danish organic farms examining the explicit as well as the implicit views of nature, ethical stands, learning processes, knowledge sources and identity of the farmers expressed. These findings are related to actual manuring strategies, crops and …
Organic Farming in Late Modernity
The contention of this paper is that organic farming, the movement and ideology, challenges sociological theory of the nature-culture relation (environmental issues, the role of science). The idea is discussed and explored in two ways. Firstly the paper gives a 'diagnosis' of organic farming in terms of modernization. The organic farming movement is a social movement having some success in a period when the power of social movements in general se…
Socio-cultural processes behind the differential distribution of organic farming in Denmark
Social identities and risk
Expert-based environmental and health risk regulation is widely believed to suffer from a lack of public understanding and legitimacy. On controversial issues such as genetically modified organisms and food-related chemicals, a “lay—expert discrepancy” in the assessment of risks is clearly visible. In this article, we analyze the relationship between scientific experts and ordinary lay citizens in the context of risks from pesticide usage in Denm…
Agriculture (3 works) · Organic farming (3 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)