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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Yes, you can access Risk, Environment and Modernity by Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Brian Wynne, Scott Lash,Bronislaw Szerszynski,Brian Wynne in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Year

1996

Print ISBN

9780803979383

eBook ISBN

9781848609570

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Ecology, Realism and the Social Sciences
Part I - Environment, Knowledge and Indeterminacy: Beyond Modernist Ecology?
Chapter 1 - Risk Society and the Provident State
Chapter 2 - May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert—Lay Knowledge Divide
Chapter 3 - Re-vision: The Centrality of Time for an Ecological Social Science Perspective
Chapter 4 - On Knowing What to Do: Environmentalism and the Modern Problematic
Part II - Risk and the Self: Encounters and Responses
Chapter 5 - Life as a Planning Project
Chapter 6 - Individualisation at Work: Occupational Identity and Office Automation
Chapter 7 - The Tears Inside the Stone: Reflections on the Ecology of Fear
Chapter 8 - Solidary Individualism: The Moral Impact of Cultural Modernisation in Late Modernity
Part III - The Politics of the Environment: Exhaustion or Renewal?
Chapter 9 - The Institutionalisation of Environmentalism: Ecological Discourse and the Second Transformation of the Public Sphere
Chapter 10 - The Shaping of the Global Environmental Agenda: The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations
Chapter 11 - Ecological Modernisation as Cultural Politics
Chapter 12 - Environmental Knowledge and Public Policy Needs: On Humanising the Research Agenda
Index

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