Risk, Environment and Modernity Towards a New Ecology
by Scott Lash; Bronislaw Szerszynski; Brian WynneFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-04-05
Publisher(s): Sage Publications
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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'.
Table of Contents
| Introduction - Bronislaw Szerszynski, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne | |
| Ecology, Realism and the Social Sciences | |
| PART ONE: ENVIRONMENT, KNOWLEDGE AND INDETERMINACY: BEYOND MODERNIST ECOLOGY? | |
| Risk Society and Provident State - Ulrich Beck | |
| May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide - Brian Wynne | |
| Re-vision - Barbara Adam | |
| The Centrality of Time for an Ecological Social Sciences Perspective | |
| On Knowing What to Do - Bronislaw Szerszynski | |
| Environmentalism and the Modern Problematic | |
| PART TWO: RISK AND THE SELF: ENCOUNTERS AND RESPONSES | |
| Life as a Planning Project - Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim | |
| Individualization at Work - Marco Diani | |
| Occupational Identity and Office Automation | |
| The Tears inside the Stone - John Maguire | |
| Reflections on the Ecology of Fear | |
| Solitary Individualization - Helmuth Berking | |
| The Moral Impact of Cultural Modernization in Late Modernity | |
| PART THREE: THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT: EXHAUSTION OR RENEWAL? | |
| The Institutionalization of Environmentalism - Klaus Eder | |
| Ecological Discourse and the Second Transformation of the Public Sphere | |
| The Shaping of the Global Environmental Agenda - Andrew Jamison | |
| The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations | |
| Ecological Modernization as Cultural Politics - Maarten A Hajer | |
| Environmental Knowledge and Public Policy Needs - Robin Grove-White | |
| On Humanising the Research Agenda |
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