Rinderwahnsinn. Können Gesellschaften aus Krisen lernen?

Abstract

BSE as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy is briefly nominated, is a focal point of a series of current social crises. BSE symbolises the crisis of nature, the dawn of sciences' nimbus of objectivity, the crisis of governance and administration as well as of agriculture and related industries. In a nutshell, BSE turns out to be one of the major challenges to modem institutional structures. It has become obvious that administrations and governments as well as other societal actors like epistemic communities and non-governmental organisations face serious problems in dealing with the complex problem. With the pluralization of scientific accounts, knowledge resources, beliefs and values, but also..