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Risk, Environment and Modernity
Towards a New Ecology
Edited by:
- Scott Lash - University of Oxford, UK, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Bronislaw Szerszynski - University of Lancaster, UK
- Brian Wynne - University of Lancaster, UK
January 1996 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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'.
Bronislaw Szerszynski, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne
Introduction
PART ONE: ENVIRONMENT, KNOWLEDGE AND INDETERMINACY: BEYOND MODERNIST ECOLOGY?
Ulrich Beck
Risk Society and Provident State
Brian Wynne
May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide
Barbara Adam
Re-vision
Bronislaw Szerszynski
On Knowing What to Do
PART TWO: RISK AND THE SELF: ENCOUNTERS AND RESPONSES
Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Life as a Planning Project
Marco Diani
Individualization at Work
John Maguire
The Tears inside the Stone
Helmuth Berking
Solitary Individualization
PART THREE: THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT: EXHAUSTION OR RENEWAL?
Klaus Eder
The Institutionalization of Environmentalism
Andrew Jamison
The Shaping of the Global Environmental Agenda
Maarten A Hajer
Ecological Modernization as Cultural Politics
Robin Grove-White
Environmental Knowledge and Public Policy Needs
