The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a
“sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of …

This paper reviews recent work in the field of risk perception research, taking its examples
primarily from work relating to air pollution issues. The paper opens with a brief discussion of …

Abstract Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have gained a prominent role in the climate
science-policy interface. The article reconstructs the evolution of IAMs and their changing …

An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest
advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex …

In the past decade international and national environmental policy and action have been
dominated by issues generally defined as global environmental problems. In this article, we …

Focusing on the representation of climate change in the British “quality press,” this article
argues that the discursive (re) construction of scientific claims in the media is strongly …

Having outlined a theory of heterogeneous social construction, this article describes the
scientific construction of climate change as a global-scale environmental problem caused by …

How do science and technology shape the world? Or medicine and engineering? How does
the world in turn shape them? And how, if at all, might we intervene in these processes …

This article argues that, in public and policy contexts, the ways in which many scientists talk
about uncertainty in simulations of future climate change not only facilitates communications …

The theory of boundary organizations was developed to address an important group of
institutions in American society neglected by scholarship in science studies and political …