What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare? What principles should policy
makers draw on as they try to balance animal welfare against human liberty? Much has …

The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics offers a comprehensive assemblage of
cutting-edge critical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of moral panic. All chapters …

This paper concerns the relationship between ideas, values, psychological habitus and
behaviour on the one hand and ecological and economic structures on the other–or what …

Combining the theories and concepts of Norbert Elias with the empirical example of climate
change, this article aims to extend and develop the concept of moral panic. The focus of the …

Sustainable tourism aims to achieve a balance between the needs of tourists, the
environment, local people, and businesses–a situation complicated by the numerous ethical …

In his theory of civilizing processes Elias drew attention, albeit obliquely, to the interweaving
connections between ecological, biological, social and psychological processes operating …

In the debate about growth and sustainability, the seesaw of environmental politics has
swung between Malthusian naysaying and Star Trekking optimism, and many nuanced …

In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and
yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the …

Ecological economics has relied too much on priorities and institutional conventions defined
by the high energy/throughput era of social democracy. Future research should focus on the …

Drawing from the work of Norbert Elias and the figurational approach to research, this
chapter builds on the original concept of moral panic and on the contributions of Alan Hunt …