At the 10th Annual IAS-STS Conference Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies (May 2-3, 2011 at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society - Graz, Austria) we have brought together several researchers to discuss the study of situated practices of managing environments: For that we have designed a session in which Ingmar Lippert, Silvia Bruzzone, Franz Krause, Anna Schreuer and Gerald Aiken contributed analytically and empirically to the topic.
Climate change as a discursive frame for environmental management: How social movement organisations frame the debate in Finland
by Hannah Strauss
River Management. Technological Challenge or Conceptual Illusion?
Salmon weirs and hydroelectric dams on the Kemi River in Northern Finland
by Franz Krause
This presentation concerns two types of construction that have been built across the flow of the Kemi River in Finnish Lapland over its eventful history. I will try to compare salmon fishing weirs and hydroelectric dams and explore some of the underlying assumptions about the environment and concomitant relations with the river that distinguish these two types of regulators.
