Sally Eden (1967–2016) was a British

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and Professor of

Human geography Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment. It analyzes spatial interdependencies between social i ...

at the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

Scholarly contributions

Eden’s research and writing focused on how society understands and manages the environment. It included issues of

sustainable consumption Sustainable consumption (sometimes abbreviated to "SC") is the use of products and services in ways that minimize impacts on the environment in order for human needs to be met in the present but also for future generations. Sustainable consumption ...

, green lifestyles,

environmental action Environmental Action is a 501(c)(4) non-profit environmental advocacy organization in the United States. Founded in 1970 by environmental activists at the first Earth Day, it operated until 1996 but was then rebooted in 2012 as part of the Publi ...

and forms of public engagement with the environment. In a series of research projects, Eden examined how scientific knowledge about the

environment Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally * Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...

is used within and outside of government, how river restoration projects are designed and justified and how ordinary people get involved with and make sense of how environments are managed. In her writing she developed lines of analysis and argument drawing on concepts from

human geography Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment. It analyzes spatial interdependencies between social i ...

but also

science and technology studies Science and technology studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. History Like most interdisciplinary fie ...

and

environmental politics Environmental politics designate both the politics about the Natural environment, environment (see also environmental policy) and an academic field of study focused on three core components:Carter, Neil. 2007. ''The Politics of the Environment: Id ...

. Eden's book ''Environmental Publics'' (Routledge 2017) argues that ‘the public’ is not one thing and their engagements with the environment take multiple forms.

Publications

* Eden, S. “Environmental Publics”. London & New York: Routledge, 2017. * Eden, S. “Mucky carrots and other proxies: Problematising the knowledge-fix for sustainable and ethical consumption”. Geoforum 39(2), pp. 1044–1057, 2008. * Eden, S. “Being Fieldworthy: Environmental Knowledge Practices and the Space of the Field in Forest Certification”. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26, pp. 1018–1035, 2008. DOI: 10.1068/d3208 * Eden, S. “Ecological versus Social Restoration? How urban river restoration challenges but also fails to challenge the science - policy nexus in the United Kingdom”. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 24(5), 2006. * Eden, S. “Environmental issues: sustainable progress?”. Progress in Human Geography 24(1), pp. 111–118, 2000. * Eden, S. “Environmental issues: knowledge, uncertainty and the environment”. Progress in Human Geography 22(3), pp. 425–432, 1998. * Eden, S. “Environmental Issues and Business: Implications of a Changing Agenda”. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1996. * Eden, S. “Public participation in environmental policy: considering scientific, counter-scientific and non-scientific contributions”. Public Understanding of Science 5(3), 1996.

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Environmental Publics
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