Publications
Books
Kjølberg, K. & Wickson, F. (2010) Nano meets Macro: Social Perspectives on Nanoscale Sciences and Technologies (Pan Stanford Publishing: Singapore).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Marshak, M., Wickson, F., Herrero, A., & Wynberg, R. (2021). “Losing practices, relationships and agency: ecological deskilling as a consequence of the uptake of modern seed varieties among South African Smallholders” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 1–24.
Rivera López, F., Wickson, F., and Hausner, V.H. (2019) “Bridging different perspectives for biocultural conservation: art-based participatory research on native maize conservation in two indigenous farming communities in Oaxaca, Mexico” Environment, Development, Sustainability 22: 7427–7451.
Preston, C. and Wickson, F. (2019) “Ethics and Governance” in H. Dressel (ed) Gene Drives: A report on their science, application, social aspects, ethics and regulations. Bern: Critical Scientists Switzerland.
Lombi, E., Donner, E., Dusinska, M. and Wickson, F. (2019) “A One Health approach to managing the applications and implications of nanotechnologies in agriculture” Nature Nanotechnology 14: 523-531
Binimelis, R. and Wickson, F. (2018) “The troubled relationship between GMOs and beekeeping: an exploration of socioeconomic impacts in Spain and Uruguay” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (published online 17 September 2018) https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2018.1514678
Agapito-Tenfen, S. Z. and Wickson, F. (2017) “Challenges for transgene detection in landraces and wild relatives: learning from 15 years of debate over GM maize in Mexico” Biodiversity Conservation. doi: 10.1007/s10531-017-1471-0
Agapito-Tenfen, S., Rivera Lopez, F., Mallah, N., Abou-Slemayne, G., Trtikova M., Nodari, R.O. and Wickson, F. (2017). “Transgene flow in Mexican maize revisited: Socio-biological analysis across two contrasting farmer communities and seed management systems”, Ecology and Evolution 1-12. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3415 (open access)
van Hove, L. and Wickson, F. (2017). “Responsible Research Is Not Good Science: Divergences Inhibiting the Enactment of RRI in Nanosafety“, Nanoethics published online 21 September 2017. doi: 10.1007/s11569-017-0306-5
Wickson, F., Preston, C., Binimelis, R., Herrero, A., Hartley, S., Wynberg, R., and Wynne, B. (2017). “Addressing socio-economic and ethical considerations in biotechnology governance: The potential of a new politics of care” Food Ethics. doi: 10.1007/s41055-017-0014-4 (open access)
Hjorth, R., van Hove, L. and Wickson, F. (2017). “What can nanosafety learn from drug development? The feasibility of “safety by design”, Nanotoxicology. doi: 10.1080/17435390.2017.1299891
Herrero, A., Binimelis, R. and Wickson, F. (2017). “Just existing is resisting: The everyday struggle against the expansion of GM crops in Spain“, Sociologia Ruralis. doi: 10.1111/soru.12166
Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Díaz, S., Pataki, G., Roth, E., Stenseke, M., Watson, R. T., Dessane, E. B., Islar, M., Kelemen, E., Maris, V., Quaas, M., Subramanian, S. M., Wittmer, H., Adlan, A., Hahn, S., Al-Hafedh, Y. S., Amankwah, E., Asah, S. T., Berry, P., Bilgen, A., Breslow, S. J., Bullock, C., Caceres, D., Daly-Hassen, H., Figueroa, E., Golden, C. D., Gomez-Baggethun, E., May, P. H., Mead, A., O’Farrell, P., Pandit, R., Pengue, W., Pichis-Madruga, R., Popa, F., Preston, S., Pacheco-Balanza, D., Saarikoski, H., Strassburg, B. B., van den Belt, M., Verma, M., Wickson, F. and Yagi, N. (2017). “Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach”, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 26:7-16. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.12.006 (open access)
Wickson, F., Binimelis, R. and Herrero, A. (2016) “Should Organic Agriculture Maintain Its Opposition to GM? New Techniques Writing the Same Old Story“, Sustainability , 8(11), 1105. doi: 10.3390/su8111105 (open access)
Wickson, F. (2016). “Do We Care About Synbiodiversity? Questions arising from an investigation into whether there are GM crops in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault”, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. doi: 10.1007/s10806-016-9634-7 (open access)
Hartley, S., Gillund, F., van Hove, L. and Wickson, F. (2016). “Essential Features of Responsible Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology“, PLoS Biology 14(5): e1002453. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002453
Preston, C. and Wickson, F. (2016) “Broadening the lens for the governance of emerging technologies: Care ethics and agricultural biotechnology” Technology in Society 45:48-57.
Holderbaum, D.F., Cuhra, M., Wickson, F., Orth, A.I., Nodari, R., Bøhn, T. (2015) “Chronic Responses of Daphnia magna Under Dietary Exposure to Leaves of a Transgenic (Event MON810) Bt-Maize Hybrid and its Conventional Near-Isoline” Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A: Current Issues 78(15): 998-1007.
Miller, G. and Wickson, F. (2015). “Risk Analysis of Nanomaterials: Exposing Nanotechnology’s Naked Emperor” Review of Policy Research 32(4): 485-512.
Hilbeck, A., Binimelis, R., Defarge, N., Steinbrecher, R., Szekacs, A., Wickson, F., Antoniou, M., Bereano, P.L., Clark, E.A., Hansen, M., Novotny, E., Heinemann, J., Meyer, H., Shiva, V., Wynne, B. (2015). “No scientific consensus on GMO safety”, Environmental Sciences Europe 27(4): 1-6.
Wickson, F., Hartmann, N.B., Hjorth, R., Foss-Hansen, S., Wynne, B. and Baun, A. (2014) “Balancing Scientific Tensions” Nature Nanotechnology 9: 870. doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.237
Wickson, F. (2014) “Environmental protection goals, policy and publics in the European regulation of GMOs” Ecological Economics. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.09.025
Wickson, F. And Carew, A.L. (2014) “Quality criteria and indicators for responsible research and innovation: learning from transdisciplinarity” Journal of Responsible Innovation 1(3): 254-273
Wickson, F. and Forsberg, E-M. (2014) “Standardising Responsibility? The Significance of Interstitial Spaces” Science and Engineering Ethics. doi: 10.1007/s11948-014-9602-4
Wickson, F., Strand, R., Kjølberg, K. (2014) “The Walkshop Approach to Science and Technology Ethics” Science and Engineering Ethics. doi: 10.1007/s11948-014-9526-z
Wickson, F. & Wynne, B. (2012) “Ethics of Science for Policy in the Environmental Governance of Biotechnology: MON810 Maize in Europe” Ethics, Policy and Environment 15(3): 321-340.
Grieger, K.D., Wickson, F., Andersen, H.B., & Renn, O. (2012) “Improving Risk Governance of Emerging Technologies through Public Engagement: The Neglected Case of Nanoremediation?” International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society 10: 61-78.
Wickson, F., Gillund, F. and Myhr, A.I. (2012) “Tratando as nanopartículas com precaução: reconhecendo a incerteza qualitativa na avaliação científica do risco” Política & Sociedade 11(20): 171-204.
Wynne, B. & Wickson, F. (2012) Reply to J. N. Perry et al. EMBO Reports 13(6): 482-483.
Wickson, F. & Wynne, B. (2012) “The anglerfish deception: The light of proposed reform in the regulation of GM crops hides underlying problems in EU science and governance” EMBO Reports 13(2): 100-105.
Wickson, F. (2011) Gobernanza nanotecnológica: por qué no podemos confiar en evaluaciones de riesgo científicas. Mundo Nano Vol. 4, No. 1, enero-junio, 2011
Wickson, F. (2011) Technology: Nanomaterials need flexible regulation. Nature 476, p. 283
Slaattelid, R.T., Wickson, F. (2011) Imag(in)ing the Nano-scale: Introduction. NanoEthics 5 (2): 159-163
Wickson, F., Delgado, A. & Kjølberg, K.L. (2010) “Who or What is ‘The Public’?” Nature Nanotechnology 5: 757-758
Wickson, F., Grieger, K., & Baun, A. (2010) “Nature and Nanotechnology: Science, Ideology & Policy” International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society 8(1): 5-23
Delgado, A., Kjølberg, K.L. & Wickson, F. (2010) “Public engagement coming of age: From theory to practice in STS encounters with nanotechnology” Public Understanding of Science 20(6): 826-845.
Carew, A. & Wickson, F. (2010) “The TD Wheel: A heuristic to shape, support and evaluate transdisciplinary research” Futures Futures 42: 1146-1155
Wickson, F. (2009) “Extended Review of Risk Assessment: A Case Study in Reliability Rating and Reflective Questioning” Journal of Risk Research 12(6), pp.749-770.
Wickson, F. (2008) “Narratives of Nature and Nanotechnology” Nature Nanotechnology 3(6), pp.313-315.
Kjølberg, K., Strand, R., Delgado, G.C., Wickson, F. (2008) “Models of Governance for Converging Technologies” Technology Assessment and Strategic Management 20(1), pp. 83-97.
Wickson, F., Nepstad, R., Am, T. & Winkler, M. (2008) “Reflections on Philosophy of Nanoscience from Nanoscience Practitioners” Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics (Etikk i Praksis) 2(2), pp.73-92.
Russell, A.W., Wickson, F., and Carew, A.L. (2008) “Transdisciplinary research: context, contradictions and capacity” Futures 40(5), pp. 460-472.
Kjølberg, K. and Wickson, F. (2007) ‘Social and Ethical Interactions with Nano: Mapping the early literature’ NanoEthics 1:2, p.89-104.
Wickson, F. (2007) “From Risk to Uncertainty in the Regulation of GMOs: Social Theory and Australian Practice” New Genetics and Society 26(3), pp. 325-339.
Wickson, F., Carew, A.L. and Russell, A.W. (2006) “Transdisciplinary research: characteristics, quandaries and quality” Futures 38:9, pp.1046-1059.
Wickson, F. (2005) “Australia’s Environmental Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms: risk and uncertainty, science and precaution” Griffith Journal of the Environment Issue 1, June.
Wickson, F. (2005) “Environmental Decision Making: Emerging Conceptualisations of Uncertainty and Precaution” Rhizome volume 1, issue 1, pg. 147-162.
Wickson, F. (2004) “Australia’s Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops: Are We Risking Sustainability?” Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society Issue 2, Autumn.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Noer Lie, S. A., and Wickson, F. (2018). “Trans-ecology and Post-sustainability” in Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, edited by Michael Bess and Diana Walsh Pasulka. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA), pp. 435-443.
Wickson, F. (2015). “The ontological objection to life technosciences” in Science, Philosophy and Sustainability: The End of the Cartesian Dream. Eds. A. Guimaraes Pereira & S. Funtowicz (Routledge: Oxon): 61-77.
Wickson, F. (2013) “Environmental Ethics in an Ecotoxicology Laboratory” in S. Van Der Burg & T. Swierstra (eds) Ethics on the Laboratory Floor (Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire)
Randles, S., Youtie, J., Guston, D., Harthorn, B., Newfield, C., Shapira, P., Wickson, F., Rip, A., von Schomberg, R., Pidgeon, N. (2012) “A Trans-Atlantic Conversation on Responsible Innovation and Responible Governance” in H. van Lente et al. (eds) Little by Little: Expansions of nanoscience and emerging technologies (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft: Heidelberg) pp.169-180.
Wickson, F. (2012) “Nanotechnology and Risk” in Maclurcan, D. & Radywyl, N. (eds) Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability (CRC Press: Boca Raton) pp. 217-240.
Lie, S.A.N. & Wickson, F. (2011) “The Relational Ontology of Deep Ecology: A dispositional alternative to intrinsic value?“ in A. Aaro & J. Servan (eds) Environment, Embodiment & History (Hermes: Bergen).
Wickson, F., Gillund, F., & Myhr, A.I. (2010) “Treating Nanoparticles with Precaution: Recognising Qualitative Uncertainty in Scientific Risk Assessment” in Kjølberg, K. &
Wickson, F. (eds) Nano meets Macro: Social Perspectives on Nanoscale Sciences and Technologies (Pan Stanford Publishing: Singapore).
Wickson, F. & Kjølberg, K.L. (2009) “NanoVisions: An Experiment with NanoScientists” in Gammel, S. & Ferrari, A. (eds) Visions of Nanotechnology (AKA Verlag: Berlin) pp. 165-183.
BOOK REVIEWS
Wickson, F. (2013) “New Modes of Thought Required for the Age of Ecology” Science and Public Policy (online first)
Wickson, F. (2012) “Researching Standards: No recipe, no risk” Science and Public Policy (online first)
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Binimelis, R., Wickson, F. and Herrero, A. (2016). “Agricultural coexistence”, in Thompson, P.B. and Kaplan, D.M. (eds), Encyclopedia of food and agricultural ethics. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Wickson, F. (2010) “Images” and “Interdisciplinarity” in D. Guston (ed) Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (SAGE: London)
Wickson, F. (2014) “Deep Ecology” in Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. Ed. J. Britt Holbrook. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. (MI: Macmillan Reference: Farmington Hills) 536-538. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web access
Wickson, F. (2014) “Post-Normal Science” in Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. Ed. J. Britt Holbrook. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. (MI: Macmillan Reference: Farmington Hills) 438-440. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web access.
Letters to the Editor
Wickson, F., Bøhn, T., Wynne, B., Hilbeck, A., Funtowicz, S. (2013) “Science-based risk assessment requires careful evaluation of all studies” Nature Biotechnology 31: 1077-1078.
Wickson, F. (2010) “Mosquitos: Just how much biodiversity does humanity need?” Nature 466: 1041
Wickson, F. (2009) “Activists should be consulted in animal testing decisions” Nature 463, p.293.
Wickson, F. (2008) “What is nature, if it’s more than just a place without people?” Nature 456, p.29.
Wickson, F. (2007) “Public engagement means listening as well as talking” Nature 448/9, p.644.