From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex,
interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases …

Even as novel technologies emerge and medicines advance, pathogen-transmitting
mosquitoes pose a deadly and accelerating public health threat. Detecting and mitigating …

The issue of nature as local heritage refers to temporalities: the transmission of a valued
common good over time, as well as the assessment of causes leading to degradation of the …

Wicked problem: the many creative tools for tracking, interpreting and influencing change
are rejected by established patterns of thought.• Worldviews: change is immediate, dynamic …

This thesis elaborates an Actor Network Theory account of the representations through
which'xenotransplantation'(a key facet of the'new medical biologies') is narrated and …