BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Troubled times -- Knowledge for whom and what? -- A brief note on 'we' -- Time for the environment -- Timescapes of Modernity: an overview of the chapters -- Part I HABITS OF THE MIND -- 1 NATURE RE/CONSTITUTED AND RE/CONCEPTUALISED -- Introduction -- Nature re/constituted -- Upholding difference and distance: images of nature as culture's 'other' -- The environment: a question of praxis and indeterminate impacts -- Denatured nature: corporeal and visual -- De-temporalised time: the Newtonian heritage -- Beyond Newton: engagement with multiple temporalities and the invisible -- Environmental timescapes in a context of industrial culture -- Dreams of safety, certainty and control -- Time for recap and reflection -- 2 IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY, ISN'T IT? -- Introduction -- Nature=money, time=money -- Nature=money -- Time=money -- Encoded desires -- Economic habits of mind-the Newtonian heritage -- Calculation -- Discounting the future -- Growth and regeneration -- Spaceship earth -- Management, control and risk assessment -- Market forces and regulations: encoded realities, carrots and sticks -- Sunrise business-moonlighting for the environment -- How green is my business? -- Beyond money-'moonlighting' for the environment -- Time for recap and reflection -- Part II THE EYE OF TIME ON THE INDUSTRIAL WAY OF LIFE -- 3 SQUARE PEGS INTO ROUND HOLES -- Introduction -- Liberal democracy as timescape-the political and environmental context -- Democratic time politics in action: environment and technology in national and transnational policy -- The Powell Committee -- The European union: environmental politics-dilemmas of democracy -- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development- Rio 1992 -- Global governance by corporate values and money.

Temporalised democracy in action and concern for the future -- Time for recapitulation and reflection -- 4 INDUSTRIAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Introduction -- The role of agriculture in the global food system -- Agricultural timescapes: once upon a time and distant places -- Agriculture squeezed: between suppliers and processors, industrial values and life processes -- Taking risks: farmers, traders and limited companies -- The timescape of agriculture under conditions of industrial production -- Industrial habits of mind revisited: when nature and time are money -- Operating in the geological timescapes of soil and water -- Timebombs awaiting their 'harvest' -- We are what we eat -- 'For everything there is a season' (Ecclesiastes 3, 1) and a place -- Counterfeit freshness -- Safe until further notice: testing the poor -- Future prospects: reflections on the scope for sustainable action and change -- 'Back to basics': local and seasonal food as right -- Changing economic practice: comprehensive food histories as consumer right -- Tempering agricultural pace: owning time and the means of reproduction as farmers' rights -- 5 MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE -- Introduction -- Timescapes of the media: reporting environmental hazards -- The context of scientific uncertainty -- The timescape of news -- The BSE-CJD link: a new kind of hybrid news -- Reading about BSE and CJD: the first four days of news -- Few reasons to be cheerful: BSE and mediated knowledge -- Sound science to the rescue -- It's a beef crisis! -- Time for reflection -- The known unknowns and a few loose ends -- Institutional failure-what hope for social analysis? -- 6 RADIATED IDENTITIES -- Introduction -- Knowledge in the context of global/ising culture -- Im/materiality and mediation of an invisible threat -- Temporal complexity as cultural practice -- Relativity of measure, greying of 'facts'.

Reflections -- 7 GENIES ON THE LOOSE: WHAT NOW ALADDIN? -- Introduction -- The eighth day of creation: technology with green credentials? -- Genotechnology to the rescue: the promise of cornucopia -- Biocentrism in a context of de-naturalisation and economic efficiency -- Of mastery, omnipotence and the hazard potential of success -- What future Aladdin? -- The technological 'promise' of environmental hazards -- The social hazard of genetically engineered futures -- The stakes are high, regulations meagre, public information non-existent -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.