Chapter 44

Boundary-work, Pluralism and the Environment

JOZEF KEULARTZ

Unfortunately, most environmental problems appear to be difficult to handle. Nowadays, this intractability is no longer exclusively ascribed to some inherent features of the environmental problems themselves, like complexity. There is a growing awareness that the intractability of environmental problems can at least in part be explained by the social context in which these problems arise and should be solved.

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