Steve Rayner
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British social scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steve Rayner was James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at Oxford University and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, a member of the Oxford Martin School. He described himself as an "undisciplined social scientist" having been trained in philosophy, comparative religion and political anthropology .
Steve Rayner's Published Works
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Published Works
- Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge? (1986) (1398)
- Human choice and climate change (1998) (820)
- Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (568)
- Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty (2009) (533)
- Climate change 2007: Lifting the taboo on adaptation (2007) (491)
- Cultural theory and risk analysis (1992) (408)
- Weather Forecasts are for Wimps: Why Water Resource Managers Do Not Use Climate Forecasts (2005) (346)
- How Fair Is Safe Enough? The Cultural Approach to Societal Technology Choice1 (1987) (342)
- Clumsy solutions for a complex world : the case of climate change (2006) (339)
- Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and environmental policy discourses (2012) (303)
- Democracy in the age of assessment: Reflections on the roles of expertise and democracy in public-sector decision making (2003) (213)
- Time to ditch Kyoto (2007) (203)
- Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World (2006) (199)
- The Oxford Principles (2013) (194)
- The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009 (2010) (187)
- How to eat an elephant: a bottom-up approach to climate policy (2010) (179)
- Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organization (1986) (173)
- Lifting the Taboo on the Adaptation (2007) (168)
- Taming the waters: strategies to domesticate the wicked problems of water resource management (2005) (143)
- City networks: breaking gridlocks or forging (new) lock-ins? (2016) (140)
- Sustainable Development and Mitigation (2007) (131)
- Ecological economics and sustainable governance of the oceans (1999) (129)
- A Cultural Perspective On the Structure and Implementation of Global Environmental Agreements (1991) (104)
- Energy Policies and the Greenhouse Effect (1990) (94)
- Risk and Governance Part I: The Discourses of Climate Change (1998) (92)
- Maintaining the Status Quo: How Institutional Norms and Practices Create Conservative Water Organizations (2005) (89)
- The Wrong Trousers: Radically Rethinking Climate Policy (2007) (84)
- Disagreeing about risk: the institutional cultures of risk management and planning for future generations (1984) (80)
- Management of Radiation Hazards in Hospitals: Plural Rationalities in a Single Institution (1986) (78)
- Decision Analysis and Rational Action (1998) (78)
- Risk management for global environmental change (1991) (76)
- Zen and the art of climate maintenance (1997) (75)
- Human choice and climate change. Volume 1: The societal framework (1998) (74)
- Setting the stage: climate change and sustainable development (1999) (73)
- Climate change, poverty, and intragenerational equity: the national level (2001) (69)
- Muddling Through Metaphors to Maturity: A Commentary on Kasperson et al., The Social Amplification of Risk1 (1988) (64)
- The Case for Clumsiness (2006) (62)
- Novel Multisector Networks and Entrepreneurship in Urban Climate Governance (2013) (61)
- Risk and Relativism in Science for Policy (1987) (59)
- Jack Beale Memorial Lecture on Global EnvironmentWicked Problems: Clumsy Solutions – diagnoses and prescriptions for environmental ills (2006) (57)
- What drives environmental policy (2006) (56)
- Trust and the Transformation of Energy Systems (2010) (51)
- Hume's Moral Philosophy (2005) (47)
- A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change (2018) (47)
- Human choice and climate change. Volume 3: The tools for policy analysis (1997) (45)
- The Novelty Trap: Why Does Institutional Learning about New Technologies Seem So Difficult? (2004) (44)
- Solar Geoengineering and Democracy (2018) (43)
- Novel Multisector Networks and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Small Businesses in the Multilevel Governance of Climate Change (2013) (43)
- Risk and Governance Part II: Policy in a Complex and Plurally Perceived World (1998) (43)
- Integrating psychometric and cultural theory approaches to formulate an alternative measure of risk perception (2010) (40)
- The rise of risk and the decline of politics (2007) (38)
- The perception of time and space in egalitarian sects: a Millenarian cosmology (1982) (36)
- “A New Spirit of Hope”: Educating the Book Trade, 1920–1930 (2013) (34)
- The societal framework (1998) (34)
- Planning mega-event legacies: uncomfortable knowledge for host cities (2016) (33)
- Artificial Light in the Environment (2009) (33)
- The challenge of climate change to the social sciences (1998) (33)
- Role of the research standpoint in integrating global-scale and local-scale research (2001) (33)
- Resources and Technology (1998) (31)
- Cultural Theory and Risk (2008) (30)
- Human choice and climate change. Volume 2: Resources and technology (1997) (30)
- Unnatural Selection : The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People (2008) (29)
- Prediction and other approaches to climate change policy (2000) (26)
- Rules, Decisions, and Inequality: In Egalitarian Societies (1989) (25)
- Culture and the Common Management of Global Risks (1988) (24)
- You Never Miss the Water till the Well Runs Dry: Crisis and Creativity in California (2006) (21)
- Lifting the taboo on adaptation (2007) (2014) (20)
- What might Evans‐Pritchard have made of two degrees? (2016) (20)
- The rules that keep us equal: complexity and costs of egalitarian organization (1988) (19)
- A Transactional Culture Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Practices (2015) (19)
- Towards a Transactional Approach to Culture: Illustrating the Application of Douglasian Cultural Framework in a Variety of Management Settings (2012) (18)
- Adapting Institutions to Climate Change (2010) (18)
- Mapping institutional diversity for implementing the Lisbon principles (1999) (17)
- Security, governance and environment (2000) (17)
- The Academic Book of the Future (2015) (17)
- A conceptual map of human values for climate change decision making (1995) (16)
- Making Markets: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Economic Exchange (1992) (16)
- Learning from the blind men and the elephant: or seeing things whole in risk management (1987) (16)
- Reconciling the irreconcilable (2002) (15)
- How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course (2009) (15)
- RISK IN CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE (1990) (13)
- Domesticating Nature: Commentary on the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse (2021) (13)
- Governance and the Global Commons (1994) (13)
- To know or not to know? A note on ignorance as a rhetorical resource in geoengineering debates (2015) (13)
- Fiddling While the Globe Warms (1989) (11)
- A Curious Asymmetry: Social Science Expertise and Geoengineering (2013) (11)
- Industrial Ecology and Global Change: Changing Perceptions of Vulnerability (1994) (10)
- Human choice and climate change. Volume 4: What have we learned? (1997) (10)
- Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience and No Regrets (2011) (10)
- The tools for policy analysis (1998) (9)
- Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions (1992) (9)
- Images of kingship in Chaucer and his Ricardian contemporaries (2008) (8)
- Geoengineering: Code of conduct for geoengineering (2016) (8)
- Prospects for CO2 emissions reduction policy in the USA (1993) (7)
- The Kyoto Protocol (2008) (6)
- Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (2014) (6)
- Equity Issues and Integrated Assessment (2019) (6)
- Climate Engineering: Responsible Innovation or Reckless Folly? (2017) (6)
- Coping with Climate Variability (2003) (6)
- The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (2015) (5)
- Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain: ‘Open manslaughter and bold bawdry’: Male Sexuality as a Cause of Disruption in Malory's Morte Darthur (2014) (5)
- Coping with climate variability: municipal water agencies in Southern California. (2003) (5)
- Decoupling national water needs for national water supplies: insights and potential for countries in the Jordan Basin (2017) (5)
- Secondary Traumatic Stress and Related Factors in Australian Social Workers and Psychologists. (2020) (5)
- To know or not to know (2015) (5)
- Rhythms of Prediction in South Australian Water Resource Management (2019) (5)
- Empowered or reduced? Reflections on the citizen and the push for participation (2009) (4)
- Markets, Distribution, and Exchange After Societal Cataclysm (2000) (4)
- Weather and Climate Knowledge for Water Security: Institutional Roles and Relationships in Turkana (2017) (4)
- A Cultural Appreciation of Corporate Sustainability Reporting by Indian Companies (2008) (4)
- The Potential for Enhanced Water Decoupling in the Jordan Basin through Regional Agricultural Best Practice (2018) (4)
- Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organizations (1985) (4)
- The Politics of Schism: Routinisation and Social Control in the International Socialists/Socialist Workers' Party (1984) (4)
- Auditioning for Permanence (2015) (3)
- The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy (2014) (3)
- Stocks, Flows, and Prospects of Energy (2010) (3)
- Social Solidarities and Environmental Separations (1994) (3)
- Radiation Hazards in Hospital: A Cultural Analysis of Occupational Risk Perception (1984) (3)
- Chapter 12 Sustainable Development and Mitigation (2007) (3)
- International impacts of global climate change: Testimony to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs (1989) (3)
- Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: a new approach to climate politics (2017) (3)
- International cooperation: building regimes for natural resource management and the environment (1991) (3)
- Who ' s in Charge ? Worldwide Displacement of Democratic Judgement By Expert Assessments (2013) (2)
- Science and Trust Expert Group Report & Action Plan: Starting a National Conversation about Good Science. (2010) (2)
- Global change research: Science and policy (1993) (2)
- Human Capital, Social Capital and Institutional Capacity (2009) (2)
- The University Press Redux: Introduction (2016) (2)
- Early Geoengineering Governance: The Oxford Principles (2017) (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Book History. by Leslie Howsam. (2016) (1)
- Chasing a specter: Risk management for global environmental change (1989) (1)
- Thinking the Unthinkable: Preparing for Global Disaster (1990) (1)
- 50 ideas to change science Part one Life and Earth (2010) (1)
- Managing the global commons decision making and conflict resolution in response to climate change (1990) (1)
- Sociocultural definitions of risk (1990) (1)
- Novel Multi-sector Networks and Entrepreneurship: a study of small business as an emerging non-state actor on climate change mitigation in Metro Vancouver (2011) (1)
- Policies to Encourage Private Sector Responses to Potential Climate Change (1989) (1)
- Limiting the greenhouse effect) (1991) (1)
- Human choice and climate change. Four volume set (1997) (1)
- Global Environmental Change (2018) (1)
- Creating a Climate for Change: The influence of Luther Gerlach in Critical Thinking about Climate Policy (2007) (1)
- ‘Perced to the Roote’: Challenges in Teaching Chaucer at UK Universities (2008) (1)
- Introduction: The Academic Book of the Future (2016) (1)
- Weather, Climate and Everyday Life: Social Science Perspectives (2009) (0)
- American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States’ Response to Global Warming: Donald A. Brown (Ed.), Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 260 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $25.99 (paper) (2003) (0)
- Stocks, Flows, and Prospects of Energy, Chapter 22 in Linkages of Sustainability (2009) (0)
- GM food: Rat reality show blurs quality control (2013) (0)
- 50 ideas to change science: Earth (2010) (0)
- Nature Myths and Policy Design (2019) (0)
- Determinism and Deliberation : Problematic Prerequisites (2018) (0)
- Towards a Transactional Approach to Culture (2012) (0)
- Lost in the Woods: Grey Areas in Malory and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur (2012) (0)
- Applied Anthropology: Searching for Safety. Aaron Wildavsky (1990) (0)
- Making Markets: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Economic Exchange (Contributions in Economics & Economic History) (1992) (0)
- Back to the Roots: Commentary on viable institutions and scope for incoherence by Perri 6 (2006) (0)
- Governing geoengineering: lessons, syndromes, responses (2012) (0)
- In Review (2008) (0)
- The Role of Liability Preferences in Societal Technology Choices: Results of a Pilot Study (1987) (0)
- Review of commentary: no climate change salience in Lofoten fisheries? A comment on understanding the need for adaptation in natural resource dependent communities (2017) (0)
- Technological ambiguity & the Wassenaar Arrangement (2009) (0)
- Institutional challenges of climate geoengineering 1 (2017) (0)
- Solar Geoengineering and Democracy (2018) (0)
- The fairness hypothesis and managing the risks of societal technology choices (1986) (0)
- Convergence Special Issue (2018) (0)
- 'How love and I togedre met': Gower, Amans and the Lessons of Venus in the 'Confessio Amantis'. (2014) (0)
- Editorial (2019) (0)
- Introduction: (2021) (0)
- Observing the author–editor relationship: recordkeeping and literary scholarship in dialogue (2019) (0)
- Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction (2021) (0)
- Editorial (2022) (0)
- John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture ‐ by Maura Nolan (2008) (0)
- The case of the ‘curious document’: Thomas Malory, William Matthews and Eugène Vinaver (2015) (0)
- Who's in Charge? (2003) (0)
- Conclusion: Back to the Future (2022) (0)
- The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd (review) (2013) (0)
- Approaches to Arthurian Studies: from Tradition to Innovation (2017) (0)
- African Traditional Law. (1977) (0)
- Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain edited by Amanda Hopkins (2014) (0)
- General and Theoretical: Soviet and Western Anthropology. Ernest Gellner (1981) (0)
- The Academic Book of the Future: BOOC (Book as Open Online Content) (2016) (0)
- Editorial (2018) (0)
- Too Strong for Principle: An Examination of the Theory and Philosophical Implications of Evolutionary Ethics (2005) (0)
- Circumventing Water Scarcity in the Jordan Basin (2019) (0)
- The dog that didn't bark: A longitudinal study of reading behaviour in physical and digital environments (2014) (0)
- VIDEO: Session 9: Universities and Session 10: Financing and Scaling Up Energy Justice (2009) (0)
- Editorial (2020) (0)
- Editorial (2020) (0)
- C. S. Lewis (2019) (0)
- Introduction:: the persistence of Georgette Heye (2021) (0)
- Meeting on human dimensions of global environmental change) (1990) (0)
- Introduction (1991) (0)
- Female Arthurian Scholars: An Initial Collection of Tributes (2019) (0)
- Boundaries in Medieval Romance (2010) (0)
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