Risk, environment and modernity : towards a new ecology / edited by Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Brian Wynne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lash, Scott.

Szerszynski, Bronislaw.

Wynne, Brian.

Series:

Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)

Theory, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE, 1996.

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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'.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803979383

080397938X

9781283880756

128388075X

9781848609570

1848609574

9780585343709

0585343705

OCLC:

1007861377