JOHN BARRY Lecturer, Department of Politics, Keele UniversityEEVA BERGLUND formerly of the Department of Social Anthropology, Kings College CambridgeB. VICTOR BRATLEY Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of SurreySUSAN CARR Centre for Technology Strategy, Open UniversityNIGEL GILBERT Professor, Department of Sociology, University of SurreySIMON GUY Senior Research Associate, Centre for Urban Technology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne DOMINIC HOGG formerly of the Global Security Programme, Cambridge UniversitySTEPHEN HOMEWOOD Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University Business School JOANNE JORDAN Centre for Research in Primary Care, University of LeedsLES LEVIDOW Centre for Technology Strategy, Open UniversityDAVID LEWIS Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University Business SchoolALAN NEALE Business Policy Group, East London Business School, University of East LondonMATTHEW PATERSON Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Keele University

• Foreword; Ted Benton Preface Notes on the Contributors SECTION ONE: CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT Picking at the Lock of Economic Reductionism; P.H.G.Stephens Employing Qualitative Methods in the Assessment of Environmental Policy; M.Stroh Think Local, Act Global: Discourses of Environment and Local Protest; J.Jordan and N.Gilbert SECTION TWO: IDEOLOGY INTO PRACTICE Green Politics and Intergenerational Justice: Posterity, Progress and the Environment; J.Barry Green Political Strategy and the State; M.Paterson The Tragedy of Competitive Deregulation: Investment Codes, The World Bank, and the Environment; D. Hogg The Future of Environmental Direct Action: A Case for Tolerating Disobedience; N.B.Fairweather Environmental 'Whistleblowers'; S.Homewood and D.Lewis Utopias and Environmentalist Ambivalence Concerning Science; E.Berglund SECTION THREE: RISK AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES Biotechnology Regulation: De/Politicizing Uncertainty; L.Levidow and S.Carr A Contextual Approach to the Waste Disposal System: the Case of Incineration; B.Victor Bratley 'Take My Breath Away': Can Technical Fixes Make Cars Environmentally Friendly; A.Neale Evil Developers and Green Fairies; S.Guy Bibliography Index

JOHN BARRY Lecturer, Department of Politics, Keele UniversityEEVA BERGLUND formerly of the Department of Social Anthropology, Kings College CambridgeB. VICTOR BRATLEY Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of SurreySUSAN CARR Centre for Technology Strategy, Open UniversityNIGEL GILBERT Professor, Department of Sociology, University of SurreySIMON GUY Senior Research Associate, Centre for Urban Technology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne DOMINIC HOGG formerly of the Global Security Programme, Cambridge UniversitySTEPHEN HOMEWOOD Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University Business School JOANNE JORDAN Centre for Research in Primary Care, University of LeedsLES LEVIDOW Centre for Technology Strategy, Open UniversityDAVID LEWIS Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University Business SchoolALAN NEALE Business Policy Group, East London Business School, University of East LondonMATTHEW PATERSON Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Keele University

• Foreword; Ted Benton Preface Notes on the Contributors SECTION ONE: CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT Picking at the Lock of Economic Reductionism; P.H.G.Stephens Employing Qualitative Methods in the Assessment of Environmental Policy; M.Stroh Think Local, Act Global: Discourses of Environment and Local Protest; J.Jordan and N.Gilbert SECTION TWO: IDEOLOGY INTO PRACTICE Green Politics and Intergenerational Justice: Posterity, Progress and the Environment; J.Barry Green Political Strategy and the State; M.Paterson The Tragedy of Competitive Deregulation: Investment Codes, The World Bank, and the Environment; D. Hogg The Future of Environmental Direct Action: A Case for Tolerating Disobedience; N.B.Fairweather Environmental 'Whistleblowers'; S.Homewood and D.Lewis Utopias and Environmentalist Ambivalence Concerning Science; E.Berglund SECTION THREE: RISK AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES Biotechnology Regulation: De/Politicizing Uncertainty; L.Levidow and S.Carr A Contextual Approach to the Waste Disposal System: the Case of Incineration; B.Victor Bratley 'Take My Breath Away': Can Technical Fixes Make Cars Environmentally Friendly; A.Neale Evil Developers and Green Fairies; S.Guy Bibliography Index

JOHN BARRY Lecturer, Department of Politics, Keele UniversityEEVA BERGLUND formerly of the Department of Social Anthropology, Kings College CambridgeB. VICTOR BRATLEY Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of SurreySUSAN CARR Centre for Technology Strategy, Open UniversityNIGEL GILBERT Professor, Department of Sociology, University of SurreySIMON GUY Senior Research Associate, Centre for Urban Technology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne DOMINIC HOGG formerly of the Global Security Programme, Cambridge UniversitySTEPHEN HOMEWOOD Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University Business School JOANNE JORDAN Centre for Research in Primary Care, University of LeedsLES LEVIDOW Centre for Technology Strategy, Open UniversityDAVID LEWIS Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University Business SchoolALAN NEALE Business Policy Group, East London Business School, University of East LondonMATTHEW PATERSON Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Keele University

• Foreword; Ted Benton Preface Notes on the Contributors SECTION ONE: CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT Picking at the Lock of Economic Reductionism; P.H.G.Stephens Employing Qualitative Methods in the Assessment of Environmental Policy; M.Stroh Think Local, Act Global: Discourses of Environment and Local Protest; J.Jordan and N.Gilbert SECTION TWO: IDEOLOGY INTO PRACTICE Green Politics and Intergenerational Justice: Posterity, Progress and the Environment; J.Barry Green Political Strategy and the State; M.Paterson The Tragedy of Competitive Deregulation: Investment Codes, The World Bank, and the Environment; D. Hogg The Future of Environmental Direct Action: A Case for Tolerating Disobedience; N.B.Fairweather Environmental 'Whistleblowers'; S.Homewood and D.Lewis Utopias and Environmentalist Ambivalence Concerning Science; E.Berglund SECTION THREE: RISK AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES Biotechnology Regulation: De/Politicizing Uncertainty; L.Levidow and S.Carr A Contextual Approach to the Waste Disposal System: the Case of Incineration; B.Victor Bratley 'Take My Breath Away': Can Technical Fixes Make Cars Environmentally Friendly; A.Neale Evil Developers and Green Fairies; S.Guy Bibliography Index