Competing Perceptions 21.3

Editorial: Exploring Human Knowledge and Perception

The Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) was established in 1993 to promote inquiry and intervention into environmental topics across a range of different communities and academic disciplines. This issue represents the first in an annual editorial collaboration between ESAC and Alternatives journal (please see page 36 for more information). Containing a selection of papers from the ESAC sessions of the 1994 Learned Societies conference in Calgary, the issue captures some of the vibrant discussions already underway in environmental studies. ...

Editorial: Exploring Human Knowledge and Perception
Catriona Sandilands

The Experts Disagree: A Simple Matter of Facts Versus Values?
Christina Chociolko
Inset: Experts, counter-experts and alternative understandings in the Alpac case
Inset: Experts disagree about transmissions line health risks

Turning Rivals into Allies: Understanding the Wise Use Movement
Lorelei Hanson

The Forester's Eye:Technology, Techniques and Perceptions in Early American Forestry
Rick Jonasse

More Alternatives

Notes

Harms' Way: My old blue genes
Dave Harms

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone criticism grows
Greta Gaard

The Canadian review of rNGH: Confusion, politics and alleged bribery
Mary Pickering

Bridging a chasm: New report addresses environmental research needs
Kim Remus

Chemical pollutants linked to male infertility
Erik Lindala

Controversial arrangements may send Candu reactors to China
Carol Lynn Wallace

Farmers prepare environmental plans
Richard Cressman

Progressive activism on the Internet
Joseph Zelwietro

A sampling of information available on computer networks
Joseph Zelwietro

Reviews

William Leiss and Christina Chociolko, Risk and Responsibility
Jamie Bastedo, Life and Times of the Oldest Piece of the Planet
Ken Epps et al., eds., Armed Conflicts Report 1993
Frederick Ferré and Peter Hartel, eds., Ethics and Environmental Policy: Theory Meets Practice
Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble, The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
David Engwicht, Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with Less Traffic
F. Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori and Gordon T. Geballe, Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony
Tariq Banuri and Frédérique Marglin, Who Will Save the Forests?
Robert D. Bullard, ed., Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color

Books Received for Review

Letters

Podium: On sleeping with the enemy
David B. Brooks

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