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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813769203321

Autore

Denney David

Titolo

Risk and society / / David Denney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2005

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA : , : SAGE Publications, , 2005

ISBN

9781848600584

9781446216323

9780761947396

0-7619-4739-6

9786611361938

1-281-36193-3

1-84860-058-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 220 p.) : 1 ill

Classificazione

70.10

Disciplina

302.12

Soggetti

Risk - Sociological aspects

Risk assessment

Risk perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Tables and Boxes; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Understanding Risk; ONE The Nature of Risk; TWO Theoretical Positions; Part II Living in the Risk Society; THREE Risk and Everyday Experience; FOUR Health and Risk; FIVE Professional Practices and Risk; SIX Communicating Risk Through the Media; SEVEN Risk and Social Welfare; EIGHT Risk Management and Crime; Part III International and Global Risk; NINE Risk and the New Terrorism; TEN The Management and Regulation of Risk; ELEVEN Risk and the Environment; TWELVE Risk and Global Governance

THIRTEEN Risk and the New World OrderFOURTEEN The Risk Society: An Assessment; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Risk has come to dominate individual and collective consciousness in the 21st century. Although global insecurity is related to terrorism, pollution, global epidemics and famine risks involved in ordinary life



such as food, tobacco smoking sunlight and travel have also become major preoccupations.