R Lidskog
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 34975 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Lidskog |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Lidskog |
| ASSINATURA | LIDSKOG R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Örebro University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6735-0011 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 665 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Making global environmental assessments fit for future challenges
Global environmental assessments (GEAs) provide authoritative expert knowledge on environmental issues for an international audience. Demand for GEAs is growing rapidly: their number is increasing, and their thematic scope continually expands. At the same time, the environmental, social, and political context in which GEAs operate has changed dramatically over their 50-year history. Anthropogenic environmental problems have worsened significantly…
Konstruktivistisk miljösociologi i tider av klimatnödläge
This article is a reply to Johan Söderberg’s critique of constructivist environmental sociology. Lidskog and Sundqvist challenge his claim that the climate emergency requires social scientists to refrain from conducting sociological analyses of climate science, on the grounds that such analyses could be exploited by climate denialists. They argue that Söderberg bases his reasoning on simplified dichotomies—such as the choice between taking scient…
From climate facts to climate risks. How the IPCC treats risk and uncertainty
This paper analyzes how the IPCC understands and addresses with risk and uncertainty. First, it discusses the IPCC’s formal and explicit view on how it understands, manages, and communicates risk and uncertainty in its knowledge assessments. This is done through an analysis of the documents that the IPCC has produced on the subject. The analysis reveals that the IPCC has an ambitious yet complicated system for identifying, assessing, and managing…
Making risk communication in practice
Using the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) as a lens, this study examines the making of risk communication in Swedish municipalities by comparing two central professions in this work, safety and communication.Sweden's decentralised responsibility for risk preparedness means that municipalities are given a central role in promoting increased preparedness among residents and local actors.However, there is little guidance on how to organise t…
Global environmental assessments and transformative change
The gap between what is known about climate change and the action taken to prevent it has instigated debates around how to reconfigure global environmental assessment organizations to better inform and foster transformative change. One recurring request involves the need for a broader and better inclusion of social scientific knowledge. However, despite such intentions, the inclusion of social scientific research remains limited. How can this be …
Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation
Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change. Written by two professors of sociology who are deeply involved in the international community of environmental sociology, Magnus Boström and Rolf Lidskog argue that we need to better understand society as well as the f…
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
Miljösociologi i går, i dag och i morgon
Denna artikel ger ett historiskt perspektiv över miljösociologins utveckling i Sverige de senaste tre decennierna. Den diskuterar miljöfrågan och miljöforskningens förändring och hur det lett till den paradoxala situationen att miljösociologin blivit mer efterfrågad men samtidigt mer osynlig. Skälet till det är dels att stora delar av den sociologiska miljöforskningen sker inom ramen för mångvetenskapliga forskningsprogram, dels att den utförs av…
Pluralism, paralysis, practice
In recent years, the global environmental science-policy interface has come to include a greater variety of knowledge. Social scientists have joined natural scientists at the policy table, and Indigenous and local knowledge is being taken ever more seriously. But this pluralisation raises political, normative, and epistemic challenges for environmental expert organisations, including with respect to how knowledge is managed, how it is judged to b…
Environmental expertise for social transformation
What role should social science play in the work for transforming society towards sustainability? The background for this question is that despite massive investments in environmental research and the accumulation of data on the human impact on the environment, action remains insufficient. The severity of the current situation has led to the conclusion that moderate change is not enough; there is a need for a fundamental transformative change of …
Ignorance and the regulation of artificial intelligence
Much has been written about the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI). This article is interested not only in what is known about these risks, but what remains unknown and how that unknowing is and should be approached. By reviewing and expanding on the scientific literature, it explores how social knowledge contributes to the understanding of AI and its regulatory challenges. The analysis is conducted in three steps. First, the article inv…
Cold Science Meets Hot Weather
Science is frequently called upon to provide guidance in the work towards sustainable development. However, for science to promote action, it is not sufficient that scientific advice is seen as competent and trustworthy. Such advice must also be perceived as meaningful and important, showing the need and urgency of taking action. This article discusses how science tries to facilitate action. It claims that the use of scientific storytelling—coher…
Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis
Crisis, by its very nature, requires decisive intervention. However, important questions can be obscured by the very immediacy of the crisis condition. What is the nature of the crisis? How it is defined (and by whom)? And, subsequently, what forms of knowledge are deemed legitimate and authoritative for informing interventions? As we see in the current pandemic, there is a desire for immediate answers and solutions during periods of uncertainty.…
Industrial scientific expertise and civil society engagement
Although the significance of scientific expertise is often proposed and empirically illustrated in academic literature, it is still unclear how environmental expertise becomes authoritative, and how its legitimacy can be challenged. In order to understand the interplay between scientific expertise and civil society engagement, this paper examines how industrial scientific expertise has worked with surrounding communities and civil society to info…
Samhället utmanat
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing social phenomenon, both as a technical infrastructure and as a sociotechnical imaginary. While there is ample sociological research on AI’s implications for different societal sectors, there has been limited sociological discussion on AI itself. This article engages with the current debate on superintelligence – a future AI that transcends human intelligence – to show that the development of AI concerns c…
The institutional machinery of expertise
This paper examines the sociological importance of expert knowledge in the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this expertise, it is possible to follow patterns of infections, fatalities and recoveries almost in real time, and this knowledge is crucial for countries when deciding on relevant governmental strategies to control the spread. The paper stresses that there was a strong institutional machinery of expertise for data production and dissemination, …
Foreign, Domestic, and Cultural Factors in Climate Change Reporting
This study examines domestic media’s coverage of foreign wildfires from a climate change perspective. It explores Swedish newspapers’ coverage of wildfires in Australia, the Mediterranean region, and the USA during a three-year period (February 2013–March 2016), focusing on how and to what extent climate change is viewed as an underlying cause. A central result is that climate change is mentioned far more often in the case of Australian wildfires…
Intersectional boundary work in socializing new experts. The case of Ipbes
Expert organizations are often described as facilitators of the interactions between science and policy. In managing this boundary, they must also manage other boundaries, such as those between different knowledge systems and between different categories of actors. However, how this intersectional boundary work is performed, and what it implies, is still unexplored territory. Focusing on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodivers…
Coping with Fragmentation. On the Role of Techno-Scientific Knowledge within the Sámi Community
The idea that different knowledge systems should be combined is prominent within environmental governance. This is not least the case regarding sustainability, for which indigenous knowledge is seen as crucial. While the practical challenges related to bridging knowledge systems are well documented, less is known about what it means from an indigenous perspective. Drawing on an interview study, this paper explores views on techno-scientific knowl…
Conditions for Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development
Continued unsustainability and surpassed planetary boundaries require not only scientific and technological advances, but deep and enduring social and cultural changes. The purpose of this article is to contribute a theoretical approach to understand conditions and constraints for societal change towards sustainable development. In order to break with unsustainable norms, habits, practices, and structures, there is a need for learning for transfo…
Boundary organizations and environmental governance
The concept boundary organization has been introduced to identify and explain a specific way of organizing the interface between science and policy. Although the original meaning of the concept has been criticized, the term has come to be frequently used in studies of knowledge transfer and science-policy relations. This usage constitutes the reason for this paper, which investigates how the concept of boundary organization has come to be used an…
Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging
What is environmental expertise? The background to this question is that many scholars consider environmental expertise crucial for discovering, diagnosing, and solving environmental problems but do not discuss in any depth what constitutes expertise. By investigating the meaning and use of the concept of expertise in three general theories within environmental sociology—the treadmill of production, risk society, and ecological modernization— and…
Organizing international experts
What role do organizational preconditions play in the constitution of expertise? This is the guiding question for this paper, which studies how expertise is shaped in the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). By organizing the world’s experts on biodiversity, IPBES sets out to produce policy-relevant knowledge. However, in contrast to many other international expert bodies such as the IPCC, IPBE…
From wicked problem to governable entity? The effects of forestry on mercury in aquatic ecosystems
In all Swedish lakes, the concentration of mercury (Hg) in fish exceeds the European Union threshold limit. While the ultimate source of Hg is primarily airborne emissions from fossil energy, forestry plays a small but important role because some forestry operations help mobilize and transform Hg, increasing Hg loads in downstream aquatic ecosystems. Simultaneously, climate change is placing additional demands on forests to provide biomass as a s…
Capturing complexity
Managed forests can play an important role in climate change mitigation due to their capacity to sequester carbon. However, it has proven difficult to harness their full potential for climate change mitigation. Managed forests are often referred to as socio-ecological systems as the human dimension is an integral part of the system. When attempting to change systems that are influenced by factors such as collective knowledge, social organization,…
Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene
The Swedish forestry model
“The Swedish forestry model” refers to the forest regime that evolved following the 1993 revision of the Swedish Forestry Act. It is key to Swedish forest politics and used to capture the essence of a sustainable way of managing forests. However, the ideas, institutions and practices comprising the model have not been comprehensively analyzed previously. Addressing this knowledge gap, we use frame analysis and a Pathways approach to investigate t…
When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of science for policy-making, there are still diverging understandings of how, when, and under what conditions science influences policy, and accordingly, on how the interplay between science and policy should be best organized. Some researchers claim that science can effectively influence policy only if it is autonomous from the political process. Others claim the opposite: that science can influenc…
Bumping against the boundary
Founded in 2012, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is one of the most ambitious attempts to date to bridge the divide between scientific knowledge and indigenous and local knowledge. Doing so requires overcoming participatory, epistemological and ontological challenges, including different communicative forms, diverging criteria for knowledge validation, and conflicting views of nature. C…
Scientised citizens and democratised science. Re-assessing the expert-lay divide
During the last decade there have been growing calls for increased public inclusion in risk regulation. This paper investigates three of these proposals for a new relationship between science and the public, namely New Production of Knowledge, Postnormal Science, and Scientific Citizenship. These all concern how science can be democratised and how new relations between expertise and citizens can be negotiated and designed. By critically discussin…
In Science We Trust? On the Relation Between Scientific Knowledge, Risk Consciousness and Public Trust
Characteristic of present-day risks is their increasing remoteness from lay people's perception and that scientific knowledge is required to gain knowledge of them. Science can thus be seen as the primary institution entrusted with knowledge claims about risks. However, contrary to this, people in many cases seem to ignore certain environmental risks despite the existence of scientific evidence that an activity or event constitutes a risk to huma…
A reflexive look at reflexivity in environmental sociology
Reflexivity is a central concept in environmental sociology, as in environmental social science in general. The concept is often connected to topics such as modernity, governance, expertise, and consumption. Reflexivity is presented as a means for taking constructive steps towards sustainability as it recognizes complexity, uncertainty, dilemmas, and ambivalence. Critical discussion of the conceptual meaning and usage of reflexivity is therefore …
Freedom with what? Interpretations of “responsibility” in Swedish forestry practice
Responsibility is a key aspect of all regulation, and forest regulation is no exception. How should responsibility be understood and used in a time characterized by complexity and uncertainty? This paper develops a typology that distinguishes six notions of responsibility and then employs it in analyzing interpretations of responsibility in Swedish forestry practice. The Swedish forest management system is a deregulated system structured by the g…
Addressing climate change democratically. Multi‐level governance, transnational networks and governmental structures
The purpose of the article is to discuss the democratic implications of climate change and whether or not it is possible to harmonize basic democratic values with the challenges raised by global warming. Highlighting three central democratic mechanisms it is argued that even if participation and deliberation are crucial for addressing the challenge of climate change this must be done within a system of democratic representation. To become both ef…
Stakeholder Engagement in the Making
A growing number of expert organizations aim to provide knowledge for global environmental policy-making. Recently, there have also been explicit calls for stakeholder engagement at the global level to make scientific knowledge relevant and usable on the ground. The newly established Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is one of the first international expert organizations to have systematically developed a s…
Reinterpreting Locational Conflicts
Starting with a description of national policies for nuclear energy and nuclear waste management in Sweden, the paper critically examines the conventional way of interpreting locational conflict with its explanation in terms of not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY). Analysing a very strong and enduring local conflict around the issue of nuclear waste management in Sweden, the paper ends with the conclusion that the local protest in this case should not be d…
On the right track? Technology, geology and society in Swedish nuclear waste management
Although many countries with nuclear power have opted for geological disposal as the ultimate solution to the problem of nuclear waste, many of them face great problems in implementing their policies. However, at the same time as the responsible agencies in many countries ponder on how to find siting strategies that are politically and publicly acceptable, Sweden has to a large degree succeeded in implementing its policy for nuclear waste managem…
Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis
Crisis, by its very nature, requires decisive intervention. However, important questions can be obscured by the very immediacy of the crisis condition. What is the nature of the crisis? How it is defined (and by whom)? And, subsequently, what forms of knowledge are deemed legitimate and authoritative for informing interventions? As we see in the current pandemic, there is a desire for immediate answers and solutions during periods of uncertainty.…
Facing dilemmas
Representation, Participation or Deliberation? Democratic Responses to the Environmental Challenge
The environmental question poses four challenges to democracy: global justice, intergenerational justice, the value of non-human species and technocratic decision-making. This article discusses these challenges in the light of three values or dimensions of democratic theory: representativity, participation and deliberation. It is found that even, if participation and deliberation by a broad set of actors are crucial to integrate democratic decisi…
Science and policy in air pollution abatement strategies
The Role of Science in Environmental Regimes
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of science in environmental regimes. The focus is on through which conceptual lenses social scientists should judge the role of science in this area. In answering this question, the article takes as its point of departure the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). Three key findings of SSK are central to understanding the role of science in environmental regimes, namely that knowledge never moves f…
The Re-Naturalization of Society? Environmental Challenges for Sociology
The sociological discipline, as it came to be constructed from the late 19th century and onwards, deliberately concentrated on human societies, giving little attention to biophysical nature, which is a precondition for its existence and development. Today, sociologists claim that modern environmental problems constitute a challenge to the classical sociological understanding. We have a tension between 'environmental realism', which argues that so…
Transport Infrastructure Investment and Environmental Impact Assessment in Sweden
In this paper we discuss whether environmental impact assessment (EIA) can serve as an arena for including citizens in the decisionmaking process. Through a case study of a proposed extension of a regional airport in Sweden, the role of EIA, and to what degree different actors and arguments influenced the decision, is analysed. It is found that there are serious problems concerning public participation when it comes to projects which extend beyon…
Towards a global environmental sociology? Legacies, trends and future directions
A current debate on environmental sociology involves how the subdiscipline should conceptualise and investigate the environment and whether it should be prescriptive and deliver policy recommendations. Taking this debate as a point of departure this article discusses the current and future role of sociology in a globalised world. It discusses how environmental sociology in the US and Europe differ in their understandings of sociology's contributi…
Ignorance and the regulation of artificial intelligence
Much has been written about the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI). This article is interested not only in what is known about these risks, but what remains unknown and how that unknowing is and should be approached. By reviewing and expanding on the scientific literature, it explores how social knowledge contributes to the understanding of AI and its regulatory challenges. The analysis is conducted in three steps. First, the article inv…
Capturing complexity
Managed forests can play an important role in climate change mitigation due to their capacity to sequester carbon. However, it has proven difficult to harness their full potential for climate change mitigation. Managed forests are often referred to as socio-ecological systems as the human dimension is an integral part of the system. When attempting to change systems that are influenced by factors such as collective knowledge, social organization,…
The significance of meaning. Why Ipbes needs the social sciences and humanities
The term “biodiversity” is often used to describe phenomena of nature, which can be studied without a reference to the socially constructed, evaluative, or indeed normative contexts. In our paper, we challenge this conception by focusing particularly on methodological aspects of biodiversity research. We thereby engage with the idea of interdisciplinary biodiversity research as a scientific approach directed at the recognition and management of c…
Risk governance through professional expertise. Forestry consultants’ handling of uncertainties after a storm disaster
How do forestry consultants provide advice when facing a situation of great uncertainty? This question serves as the point of departure in analyzing how forestry consultants provide guidance in extreme situations. Three empirical cases are analyzed, all related to a storm that caused the most severe damage in Swedish history. The first case concerns how forestry consultants handled the immediate uncertainties in their advice on how to manage the …
Deliberative democracy meets democratised science
The main achievements of the debates on deliberative democracy and democratised science are investigated in order to analyse the reasons, meanings and prospects for a democratisation of global environmental policy. A deliberative systems approach, which emphasises the need to explore how processes in societal spheres interact to shape the deliberative qualities of the system as a whole, is adopted. Although science plays a key role in this, its p…
Reinterpreting Locational Conflicts
Starting with a description of national policies for nuclear energy and nuclear waste management in Sweden, the paper critically examines the conventional way of interpreting locational conflict with its explanation in terms of not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY). Analysing a very strong and enduring local conflict around the issue of nuclear waste management in Sweden, the paper ends with the conclusion that the local protest in this case should not be d…
Skapandet av tillit i en riskkontext. Om social riskacceptans vid lokalisering av anläggningar för radioaktivt och miljöfarligt avfall
Skapandet av tillit i en riskkontext. Om social riskacceptans vid lokalisering av anläggningar för radioaktivt och miljöfarligt avfallTaking Beck’s and Giddens’ recent formulation of the society’s new conditions for gaining trust as theoretical point of departure, this article focusses trust and risk with regard to hazardous and radioactive waste disposal in Sweden. Seeing trust as intimately connected with cognitive understanding of risks, the i…
Whose Environment? Which Perspective? A Critical Approach to Hazardous Waste Management in Sweden
Starting with a description of six general interpretations of this kind of hazardous waste siting, and with a description of the policy for hazardous waste management in Sweden, the author examines the decisionmaking process regarding the siting of the central plant for hazardous waste in Sweden. The paper ends with the conclusion that a locational conflict is to be seen mainly as a struggle concerning the perception and definition of the issue. …
The Politics of Radwaste Management in Sweden
Taking as its point of departure a conceptualization of society as compnsing three interdependent spheres - civil society, the state and the economy - the article focuses on Swedish policy for radwaste management. Nuclear power policy in Sweden was elaborated in cooperation between the state and the industry, but came in for lively discussion and politicization dunng the 1970s The problem of radioactive waste was an essential part of the critique…
Sociologins objekt eller politikens begrepp? Reflektioner kring begreppet ”civilt samhälle”
Civil society - Object of sociology or concept in politics?This paper starts by investigating the different meanings and usages of the concept of ”civil society.” An overview singles out the two dominant perspectives in current discussions: the neoliberal and the neomarxist perspectives. Thereafter, the paper examines what sociologists mean when claiming that civil society is the object of sociological thought. A third perspective emerges here, n…
Mellan sociologi och ekologi? Om det sociologiska studiet av miljöfrågan
Sociology, as it came to be constructed from the late 19th century onwards, deliberately concentrated on human societies, giving little attention to the natural world which constitutes the very condition of its existence and development. Today, some sociologists claim that the environmental problems of today constitute a challenge to this classical sociological understanding. By critically discussing environmental sociologists’ claim for the nece…
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In Science We Trust? On the Relation Between Scientific Knowledge, Risk Consciousness and Public Trust
Characteristic of present-day risks is their increasing remoteness from lay people's perception and that scientific knowledge is required to gain knowledge of them. Science can thus be seen as the primary institution entrusted with knowledge claims about risks. However, contrary to this, people in many cases seem to ignore certain environmental risks despite the existence of scientific evidence that an activity or event constitutes a risk to huma…
Introduction to this Special Issue on Sociology and the Environment
From Conflict to Communication? Public Participation and Critical Communication as a Solution to Siting Conflicts in Planning for Hazardous Waste
(1997). From Conflict to Communication? Public Participation and Critical Communication as a Solution to Siting Conflicts in Planning for Hazardous Waste. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 239-249
The Social Shaping of Radwaste Management
Today, all nuclear power countries seem to have geological disposal as their ultimate solution to the problem of highly radioactive waste. However, experience from many countries shows that this kind of siting is often a highly contested issue involving conflicts between actors on different levels. This paper analyses such conflicts as struggles between different actors aiming to realize their own perceptions and social definitions of the issue. …
Mot en gränslös demokrati
Towards a transboundary democracy? Political responses to global environmental threats.Global environmental threats challenge the national state and the traditional understanding of democracy. Whereas many environmental problems transcend time and space, democracy is bound to the geographical borders of the national state as well as to its citizens/voters of today. The aim of this paper is to elaborate in what regards environmental problems chall…
Towards a post-nuclear society? Recent trends in Swedish nuclear power policy
Sociologisk Forskning behövs
Rejoinder: The need for Sociologisk ForskningIn this rejoinder, it is argued that there is still a need for a disciplinary journal for Swedish sociology. The authors agree upon the need to revitalise Sociologisk Forskning, but are critical to the proposal to transform it into a more popular scientific journal, with an aim to become a part of the general public debate. The internationalisation and specialisation of the Swedish sociological communi…
Transport Infrastructure Investment and Environmental Impact Assessment in Sweden
In this paper we discuss whether environmental impact assessment (EIA) can serve as an arena for including citizens in the decisionmaking process. Through a case study of a proposed extension of a regional airport in Sweden, the role of EIA, and to what degree different actors and arguments influenced the decision, is analysed. It is found that there are serious problems concerning public participation when it comes to projects which extend beyon…
The Re-Naturalization of Society? Environmental Challenges for Sociology
The sociological discipline, as it came to be constructed from the late 19th century and onwards, deliberately concentrated on human societies, giving little attention to biophysical nature, which is a precondition for its existence and development. Today, sociologists claim that modern environmental problems constitute a challenge to the classical sociological understanding. We have a tension between 'environmental realism', which argues that so…
Science and policy in air pollution abatement strategies
The Role of Science in Environmental Regimes
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of science in environmental regimes. The focus is on through which conceptual lenses social scientists should judge the role of science in this area. In answering this question, the article takes as its point of departure the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). Three key findings of SSK are central to understanding the role of science in environmental regimes, namely that knowledge never moves f…
On the right track? Technology, geology and society in Swedish nuclear waste management
Although many countries with nuclear power have opted for geological disposal as the ultimate solution to the problem of nuclear waste, many of them face great problems in implementing their policies. However, at the same time as the responsible agencies in many countries ponder on how to find siting strategies that are politically and publicly acceptable, Sweden has to a large degree succeeded in implementing its policy for nuclear waste managem…
From consensus to credibility
The development of consensual science has greatly influenced the international environmental negotiation processes. This is not least the case for the Convention on Long‐range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Negotiators as well as regime analysts regard CLRTAP as a successful example of how scientists have succeeded in influencing international policy making through consensus‐building strategies. Drawing on Ulrich Beck's work on reflexive s…
Siting conflicts – democratic perspectives and political implications
All citizens, irrespective of their geographical location, have a stake in the global environment. At the same time, they have different interests as well as unequal resources concerning the possibility of developing strategies and influencing environmental agendas and decisions. This forms the basis for the quest for an ecological citizenship, where people, wherever they are located in the world, have a voice in matters that concern their enviro…
Facing dilemmas
Representation, Participation or Deliberation? Democratic Responses to the Environmental Challenge
The environmental question poses four challenges to democracy: global justice, intergenerational justice, the value of non-human species and technocratic decision-making. This article discusses these challenges in the light of three values or dimensions of democratic theory: representativity, participation and deliberation. It is found that even, if participation and deliberation by a broad set of actors are crucial to integrate democratic decisi…
Scientised citizens and democratised science. Re-assessing the expert-lay divide
During the last decade there have been growing calls for increased public inclusion in risk regulation. This paper investigates three of these proposals for a new relationship between science and the public, namely New Production of Knowledge, Postnormal Science, and Scientific Citizenship. These all concern how science can be democratised and how new relations between expertise and citizens can be negotiated and designed. By critically discussin…
Transboundary Risk Governance
Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such as go…
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