2004-05: Risk - Whole Terrain - Antioch University New England

Risk

Volume 13: 2004-2005

Environmental practice is risky business. Every day, we make personal and professional choices predicated on assessments of risk to the planet and risk to ourselves.We risk our resources, our reputations, our own welfare and the welfare of other species to make urgent and controversial choices to protect the environment. Contributors to this issue of Whole Terrain probe into the nature of risk and offer innovative ways to evaluate its role in our lives and work.

Introduction:

Enigma
Alexandra Contosta

Essays

Risking Life and Limb in Forest Restoration
Jerry Keir
A Hudson River Immersion
Laird Christensen and Jon Jensen
Numbers and Nerves: Toward an Effective Apprehension of Environmental Risk
Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic
Other Voices
Elizabeth Solet
Dirt and Sorrow
Alexandra Contosta
Journey to the Lotus
Gregory William Frux
Risk in the 1996 Mount Everest Tragedy: A Group Perspective
Lorraine Mangione
Tools and Weapons of the Wild
Meera Patankar
Risk: What’s Acceptable and Who Decides: An Interview with Thomas Webler
Stephen Gregory
The Risk Jack Took
Kathleen Dean Moore

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