University of Oxford

2010 Publications

Books

Institute Director Steve Rayner serves as editor of the Science in Society Series from Earthscan.The series aims to publish new high quality research, teaching, practical and policy-related books on topics that address the complex and vitally important interface between science and society.

Recent titles in the series include:

• Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People, edited by Peter Healey and Steve Rayner.
• 2nd edition of Business Planning for Turbulent Times: New Methods for Applying Scenarios, edited by Rafael Ramirez, John W. Selsky and Kees can der Heijden. 

Forthcoming books in the series include:

• Marginalized Reproduction: Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies
• Resolving Messy Policy Problems: Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy
• The Limits to Scarcity: Contestations and Constructions
• Debating Climate Change: Pathways through Argument to Agreement

Reports

• Prins, G., Galiana, I., Green, C., Grundmann, R., Hulme, M., Korhala, A., Laird, F., Nordhaus, T., Pielke Jr, R., Rayner, S., Sarewitz, D., Shellenberger, M., Stehr, N. and Hiroyuki, T. (2010) 'The Hartwell Paper: A New Direction for Climate Policy after the Crash of 2009’, Joint Research Paper of the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society, University of Oxford and the Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long-Wave Events, London School of Economics and Political Science, London.
• Rayner, S. (2010) Adapting Institutions to Climate Change, The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, The Stationery Office, London.
• Allsop, A., Rayner, S. et al. (2010) Science and Trust Expert Group Report & Action Plan: Starting a National Conversation about Good Science. Department of Business Innovation and Skills, London.
• Markusson N., Moran B. et al. (2010) Governing decarbonisation in Scotland – Exploring the transitions options. Report to Scottish Government and the Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Marres, N. (2010) 'What kind of space is the “sustainable home”? A comparative analysis of three “green” media spheres on the web', in Global Information Society Watch 2010 - Focus on ICTs and environmental sustainability, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos).
• Davis, T. and Schneider, T. (2010) ‘From Lamb’s Fry, Three Eggs and Bacon to Processed Cereal: Kellogg’s Transforms the Australian Breakfast Landscape in Post-War Years’, in Solomon, M., Bamossy, G.M., Askegaard, S. and Hogg. M.K. (eds.) Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective, London: Pearson Higher Education.
• Caswill, C. (2010) ‘Policy Learning and Resistance to Change: Debating User Engagement in an International Partnership’, report submitted to the Research Council of Norway.  

Book chapters

• Lezaun, J. (2010) ‘Bioethics and the Regulation of ‘Frontier Science’: The Case of Gene Therapy’, in Hutter. B. (ed.) Anticipating Risk and Organising Risk Regulation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• Wilkinson, A.J. and Lezaun, J. (2010) ‘Scenarios’, in The Sage Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Sage books.
• Rayner, S. (2010) ‘Climate Geoengineering Governance – Regulierung der Klima-Manipulation’, in Simonis, U. (ed.) Die Klima-Manipulateure: Rettet uns oder Geo-engineering? Stuttgart: Jahrbuch Okologie, Hirzel.  
• Marres, N.  (2010) ‘Testing Powers of Engagement: Green Living Experiments, the Ontological Turn and the Undoability of Involvement’, in Oswell, D. (ed.) Cultural Theory, SAGE Benchmarks in Culture and Society, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
• Marres, N. (2010) ‘Front-Staging Nonhumans: The Politics of ‘Green’ Things and the Constraint of Publicity’, in Braun, B. and Whatmore, S.J. (eds.) Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Battistion, S., Glattfelder, J.B., Garlaschelli, D., Lillo, F., Caldarelli, G. (2010) ‘The Structure of Financial Networks’, in Estrada, E., Fox, M.,. Higham, D.J. and Oppo, G.-L. (eds.) Network Science: Complexity in Nature and Technology, Springer.
• Serano, M.A., Garlaschelli, D., Boguna, M. and Loffredo, M.I. (2010) ‘The World Trade Web: Structure, Evolution and Modelling’, in The Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, EOLSS, UNESCO. 
• Webmoor, T. and Shanks, M. (2010) ‘A Political Economy of Visual Media in Archaeology’, in by Bonde, S. and Houston, S. (eds.) Re-presenting the Past: Archaeology through Image and Text, Providence, RI: Brown University.
• Baker, A. (2010) ‘Complexity’, in Williamson, J. (ed.) Key Terms in Logic, Continuum.
• Neyland, D.  (2010) ‘Replaying Society to the World through CCTV', in Tickell, A., Thrift, N. and Woolgar, S. (eds.) Globalization in Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sugden, C. (2010) 'Novelty', in Guston, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, London: Sage.

Journal articles 

• Ng, R. & S. Rayner (2010). 'Integrating Psychometric and Cultural Theory Approaches to Formulate an Alternative Measure of Risk Perception.', Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science, 23(2):85-100
• Hultman, N., D. Hassenzahl, S. Rayner  (2010). 'Climate Risk: A Critical Review of Tools, Techniques, and Approaches'. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 35:283-303
• Rayner, S. (2010). 'How to Eat an Elephant: A Bottom-up Approach to Climate Policy'. Climate Policy, 10(6):615-621
• Lezaun, J.  (2010) ‘Eloquence and Incommensurability: An Investigation into the Grammar of Irreconcilable Differences’, Social Studies of Science, June, Vol. 40(3): 349-375.
• Rayner, S. (2010) ‘How to Eat an Elephant: A Bottom-up Approach to Climate Policy’, Climate Policy, Vol. 10, Issue 6, pp. 615-621.
• Rayner, S. (2010) ‘Trust and the Transformation of Energy Systems’, Energy Policy 38: 2617-23.
• Markusson, N. and Haszeldine, S. (2010) 'Capture ready' regulation of fossil fuel power plants - Betting the UK's carbon emissions on promises of future technology. Energy Policy, 38: 6695-6702.
• Markusson, N. (2010) The championing of environmental improvements in technology investment projects. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18(8):777-783.
• Staniczenko, P.P.A., Lewis, O.T., Jones,N.S. and Reed-Tsochas, F. (2010) ‘Structural Dynamics and Robustness of Food Webs’, Ecology Letters, Vol. 13, 12 May, pp.891+ .
• Davies, W. (2010) ‘Economics and the ‘Nonsense’ of Law: The Case of the Chicago Antitrust Revolution’, Economy and Society, Volume 39, Number 1, February, pp. 64-83. 
• Eidinow, E. (2010), 'Witchcraft on Trial: Patterns of Persecution in Classical Athens’, Past and Present, 208, August, pp. 9-35
• Eidinow, E. and Taylor, C. (2010) ‘Lead-Letter Days: Writing, Communication and Crisis in the Ancient Greek World’, Classical Quarterly, 60, 1, May, pp. 30-62.
• McGoey, L. (2010) ‘Profitable Failure: Antidepressant Drugs and the Triumph of Flawed Experiments’, History of Human Sciences, 23(1), pp. 58-78.
• Wilkinson, A. J. and Ramirez, R. (2010) ‘Canaries in the Mind: How the Financial Crisis Impacts 21^st Century Futuremindfulness’, Journal of Futures Studies, March, 14(3), pp. 45-60.  
• Kuerschner, C., Brintrup, A., Thiesse, F., Bowman, P. and Dubach, E. (2010) ‘Development of an RFID-Based Track and Trace System: Experiences and Lessons Learned from a Confectionary Manufacturer’, Pacific Asian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, June, pp.19-42.
• Barigozzi, M., Fagiolo, G. and Garlaschelli, D. (2010) ‘Multinetwork of International Trade: A Commodity-Specific Analysis’, Physical Review E, 81, 046104.
• Heaton, L.L.M., López, E., Maini, P.K., Fricker, M.D. and Jones, N.S. (2010) ‘Growth-Induced Mass Flow in Fungal Networks’, Proceedings of the Royal Society, 10 June, 277, pp. 3265–3274.
• Mucha, P.J., Richardson, T., Macon, K., Porter, M.A. and Onnela, J.-P. (2010) ‘Community Structure in Time-Dependent, Multiscale, and Multiplex Networks’, Science, Vol. 328, No 5980, 14 May, pp.876-878.
• Schneider, T. and Davis, T. (2010) ‘Fostering a Hunger for Health: Food and the Self in ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly’’, Health Sociology Review (Special issue on: Food, Ethics and Identity) 19,3.
• Schneider, T and Davis, T. (2010) ‘Advertising Food in Australia. Between Antinomies and Gastro-anomy’, Consumption, Markets & Culture (Special issue on: Mirrored Histories: Consumption and Work in the Asia Pacific) 13,1, pp. 31-41.
• Webmoor, T., Carusi, A. and Novakovic, G. (2010) ‘Are Digital Picturings Representations?’ Proceedings of the 2010 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Conference, Vol. 9, pp. 174-184.
• Baker, A. (2010) ‘Simulation-Based Definitions of Emergence’, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 13(1). 
  
• Blowfield, M. and Dolan, C. (2010) ‘Fairtrade Facts and Fancies: What Kenyan Fairtrade Tea Tells Us about Business’ Role as Development Agent’, Journal of Business Ethics.
• Blowfield, M. and Dolan, C. (2010) ‘Outsourcing Governance: Fairtrade’s Message for C21 Global Governance’, Journal of Corporate Governance, Vol. 10, Issue 4, pp.484 – 499.
• Hakala, H. and Kohtamäki, M. (2011) ‘Learning and a Viable Mix of Strategic Orientations: A Focus on Software Businesses’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Vol. 17, No. 1.

Review articles, editorials and commentaries

• Rayner, S. (2010) 'Climate Geoengineering Governance'. Discussion Paper, Wissenschftszentrum Berlin fur Socialforschung.
• Davies, W. (2010) 'Recovery of What?', Open Democracy, May.
• Marres, N. (2010) (ed.) Re:publiek der Letteren, special issue of De Gids, 173 (3).