S W Verstegen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6696016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S W Verstegen |
| GIVEN NAMES | S W |
| FAMILY NAME | Verstegen |
| SIGNATURE | VERSTEGEN S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | c Environmental historian , Free University Amsterdam , The Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charles J. Halperin, Ivan the Terrible. Free to Reward and Free to Punish
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The sustainability debate
Since the publication of Our Common Future in 1987, scientists have struggled with the concept of sustainability and many definitions are now in existence. However, one can differentiate between a much smaller series of themes. Working from these definitions, we focus on six such themes. We will furthermore show that these themes are the battleground for two opposing worldviews within Western society which rule each other out. The first, the idea…
The historical roots of precautionary thinking
Although, at first glance, the precautionary principle looks perfectly sensible and self‐evident, it is based on a way of thinking that has a history of its own, which goes back to the 1960s and early 1970s. Precautionary thinking should mainly be seen as a reaction: it is an answer to the self‐confidence mainstream society had in the ‘progress’ of post‐war civilization. It is an antithesis, which materialized when especially Western civilization…
The historical roots of precautionary thinking
Although, at first glance, the precautionary principle looks perfectly sensible and self‐evident, it is based on a way of thinking that has a history of its own, which goes back to the 1960s and early 1970s. Precautionary thinking should mainly be seen as a reaction: it is an answer to the self‐confidence mainstream society had in the ‘progress’ of post‐war civilization. It is an antithesis, which materialized when especially Western civilization…
The sustainability debate
Since the publication of Our Common Future in 1987, scientists have struggled with the concept of sustainability and many definitions are now in existence. However, one can differentiate between a much smaller series of themes. Working from these definitions, we focus on six such themes. We will furthermore show that these themes are the battleground for two opposing worldviews within Western society which rule each other out. The first, the idea…
The sustainability debate
Since the publication of Our Common Future in 1987, scientists have struggled with the concept of sustainability and many definitions are now in existence. However, one can differentiate between a much smaller series of themes. Working from these definitions, we focus on six such themes. We will furthermore show that these themes are the battleground for two opposing worldviews within Western society which rule each other out. The first, the idea…
The historical roots of precautionary thinking
Although, at first glance, the precautionary principle looks perfectly sensible and self‐evident, it is based on a way of thinking that has a history of its own, which goes back to the 1960s and early 1970s. Precautionary thinking should mainly be seen as a reaction: it is an answer to the self‐confidence mainstream society had in the ‘progress’ of post‐war civilization. It is an antithesis, which materialized when especially Western civilization…
Charles J. Halperin, Ivan the Terrible. Free to Reward and Free to Punish
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
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