Key documents such as the European Water Framework Directive and the US Clean Water
Act state that public and stakeholder participation in water resource management is …

Capture and subsurface storage of CO 2 is widely viewed as being a necessary component
of any strategy to minimise and control the continued increase in average global …

Low-carbon transitions demand long-term systemic transformations and meaningful societal
engagement. Most approaches to engaging society with energy and climate change fail to …

The establishment of protected areas, such as Natura 2000, is a common approach to
curbing biodiversity loss. But many of these areas are owned or managed by private actors …

The concept of 'responsible innovation'(RI) or 'responsible research and innovation'(RRI) is
rapidly gaining currency. However, a persistent critique is that without more concrete …

With the advent of autonomous vehicles society will need to confront a new set of risks
which, for the first time, includes the ability of socially embedded forms of artificial …

Solar PV is being rolled out on a large scale in India and other emerging economies, but in
the enthusiasm for solar's promise of plentiful, low carbon energy, the social and …

There is widespread agreement that society must urgently go over to renewable energy and
that effective participation is crucial for a sustainable transition. Recent literature highlights …

This article investigates how a discourse about the role and value of public participation in
science, technology, and innovation emerged and evolved in the research policies of the …

The “participatory turn” cutting across technical approaches for appraising environment, risk,
science, and technology has been accompanied by intense debates over the desired …