This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of ‘GM’ crops in the UK. Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets it within its political and intellectual contexts, and examines the practical implications for future public engagement initiatives.  The authors, an experienced team of researchers, produce a conceptually-informed and empirically-based evaluation of the debate, drawing upon detailed observation of both public and behind-the-scenes aspects of the process, the views of participants in debate events, a major MORI-administered survey of public views, and details of media coverage.   With innovative methodological work on the evaluation of public engagement and deliberative processes, the authors analyze the design, implementation and effectiveness of the debate process, and provide a critique of its official findings.   The book will undoubtedly be of interest to a wide readership, and will be an invaluable resource for researchers, policy-makers and students concerned with cross-disciplinary aspects of risk, decision-making, public engagement, and governance of technology.

The GM Debate: Risk, Politics and Public Engagement (Genetics and Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Murdock, Graham

Rowe, Gene

O'Riordan, Tim

Horlick-Jones, Tom

Walls, John

Pidgeon, Nick

Poortinga, Wouter

Sociology

Routledge

An excellent, successful text, offering an innovative interdisciplinary approach to environment science. It is written by a team of leading experts from the internationally renowned School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK. The contributors have backgrounds in economics, geography, geology, hydrology, soil science, chemistry and biology.  Environmental Science for Environmental Management demonstrates how environmental sciences can be made more effective in environmental management. It considers the relationship between science, politics and the ethics of environmental issues, as well as the bases for regional and local resource allocation.

Environmental Science for Environmental Management

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Longman Scientific and Technical

Countryside Conflicts: The Politics of Farming, Forestry, and Conservation

Lowe, Philip

Cox, Grahm

Macewen, Malcolm

Winter, Michae

Business & Money

Gower Pub.Co.

Globalism Localism and Identity

Global economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere. However, their influence is shaped by local communities' interpretation of these forces and responses to them. Social identities provide a guide; they are the product of history, culture, economy, patterns of governance and degree of community cohesion. How the global and the local connect and reconfigure at various scales and through different cultures is explained in this forward-looking volume. The book's thesis, namely that localism is the crucial complement to globalism, is supported by a range of European case studies. Local responses to globalizing forces depend on the nature of the interlinkages in governance from international structures, through multilateral organizations to nation states, regions and localities, as these are mediated through social-local identity. The contributors draw on numerous themes in examining the interaction between the global and the local, such as decay and revitalization, local identity and empowerment, opportunism through sustainability and governance for the transition. This is a pioneering publication utilizing an innovative person-centred methodology. It makes an original and important contribution to the study of contemporary societies and is aimed at anyone interested in the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental implications of any move towards sustainability.

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