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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910954168303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 1996; London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Sage Publications, , 1996
• ISBN: 9780803979383; 080397938X; 9781283880756; 128388075X; 9781848609570; 1848609574; 9780585343709; 0585343705
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Theory, culture & society
• Altri autori (Persone): LashScott; SzerszynskiBronislaw; WynneBrian
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetti: Environmental policy; Environmental risk assessment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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'.