This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten
of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk …

Environmental problems that cross national borders are attracting increasing public and
political attention; regulating them involves coordinating the goals and activities of various …

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 …

Risk is a relatively new object of sociological research, but this research field has grown
rapidly over the last three decades. This chapter argues that the task of sociology is to …

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 …

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 …

Since entering the waste policy debate in the 1980s, the sustainability discourse has sought
to find alternatives to end-of-pipe solutions. The latest development on this path is the …

The environmental question poses four challenges to democracy: global justice,
intergenerational justice, the value of non-human species and technocratic decision-making …

Two perceptions ofrisk'tend to dominate leading conceptualizations of this term. The first
perspective is largely held by government and the scientific community. Risk, in this view, is …

How do professional experts develop advice in the face of uncertainty? The background for
this question is that uncertainties threaten all forms of expertise because they risk calling the …