Risk, environment and modernity : towards a new ecology /

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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�...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lash, Scott, Szerszynski, Bronislaw, Wynne, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996.
Series:Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Environmental policy.
Environmental risk assessment.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale.
Environnement > Évaluation du risque.
environmental policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Environmental policy
Environmental risk assessment
Umweltgefährdung
Soziologie
Risikogesellschaft
Sozialökologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Umweltpolitik
Milieuvraagstuk.
Culturele ecologie.
Environnement > Évaluation du risque > Congrès.
Écologisme > Congrès.
Politique de l'environnement > Congrès.
Sociologie du risque > Congrès.
Écologie > Sociologie > Congrès.
Environment > Conservation > Related to > Culture
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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