2004-05: 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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