Arguments in favour of participative democratic practices have been promoted stridently in recent years as trust in existing political institutions has receded. These arguments assume the declining ability of elected members to represent increasingly diverse constituencies in a period of rapid...

The paper is based on a research project that engaged with and intervened in flood risk management in national policy and in two localities. Building on recent work in STS, we develop a framework for political analysis that complements existing understandings of environmental governance by...

<b>Introduction: posthumanism in question</b> Noel Castree, Catherine Nash<br> <b>Mapping posthumanism</b> Neil Badmington<br> <b>Modalities of posthumanism</b> Bruce Braun<br> <b>Humanising posthumanism</b> Jonathan Murdoch<br> <b>Humanism's excess: some thoughts on the 'post-human/ist' agenda</b> Sarah Whatmore<br> <br>Organisors: Noel Castree,...

In ecological, environmental, and urban-regeneration terms, the participatory turn and the turn to action have been written about at length in both academic and official literatures. From neighbourhood renewal to lay ecologies, people are being ‘given’ all kinds of agency in the making of...

El presente documento analiza las principales tendencias teoricas y los temas que articulan actualmente el debate sobre el desarrollo rural en Brasil. El documento pone de manifiesto el hecho de que el programa de desarrollo rural en Brasil, en cuya elaboracion participan activemente estudiosos,...

There is a growing realisation that agriculture is a central mechanism for delivering sustainable rural development in Europe. However, agro-industrial and postproductivist logics and dynamics have largely tended to marginalise its significance. In this paper we explore some of the conceptual...

MARSDEN T. and BRISTOW G. (2000) Progressing integrated rural development: a framework for assessing the integrative potential of sectoral policies, Reg. Studies 34 , 455-469. This paper reports on the development of a methodology for assessing how sectoral policies work to progress wider rural...

How can contemporary governments and regulation respond effectively to the growth of food risks at the same time as encouraging the further economic development of the European internal market? Taking the case of European food regulation during the 'post-BSE' period, this paper explores the...

In this paper, we develop the burgeoning research agenda on alternative food networks in Europe. Through the concept of 'embeddedness', we argue for a much more nuanced and complex understanding of the relationships between conventional and alternative food chains--and, by extension, of their...