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Dominique Bourg is a Professor at the Troyes University of Technology, France, where he is head of the Centre of Research and Interdisciplinary Studies on Sustainable Development (Centre du Recherches et d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Développement Durable [CREIDD]). He also teaches at the National Foundation of Political Sciences, Paris. His fields of research are linked to environmental ethics, technology and risk assessment, as well as public debate. Among his recent publications are: L'Homme-artifice: Le sens de la technique (Gallimard, 1996); and Le Nouvel âge de l'écologie (Descartes et Cie, forthcoming). Suren Erkman has an academic background in philosophy and biology. After working for a number of years as a science and business journalist for various media, he created in 1994 a company headquartered in Geneva, the Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology (ICAST). He is also a lecturer in industrial ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and at the Université de Technologie de Troyes as well as an editor of The Journal of Industrial Ecology.