Risk, environment and modernity : towards a new ecology /
This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in 'risk societies...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
1996.
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Colección: | Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Ecology, Realism and the Social Sciences / Bronislaw Szerszynski, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne
- 1. Risk Society and the Provident State / Ulrich Beck
- 2. May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide / Brian Wynne
- 3. Re-vision: The Centrality of Time for an Ecological Social Science Perspective / Barbara Adam
- 4. On Knowing What to Do: Environmentalism and the Modern Problematic / Bronislaw Szerszynski
- 5. Life as a Planning Project / Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
- 6. Individualisation at Work: Occupational Identity and Office Automation / Marco Diani
- 7. The Tears Inside the Stone: Reflections on the Ecology of Fear / John Maguire
- 8. Solidary Individualism: The Moral Impact of Cultural Modernisation in Late Modernity / Helmuth Berking
- 9. The Institutionalisation of Environmentalism: Ecological Discourse and the Second Transformation of the Public Sphere / Klaus Eder.