Risk and society / / David Denney
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| Autore: |
Denney David
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| Titolo: |
Risk and society / / David Denney
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : SAGE, c2005 |
| London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA : , : SAGE Publications, , 2005 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (vi, 220 p.) : 1 ill |
| Disciplina: | 302.12 |
| Soggetto topico: | Risk - Sociological aspects |
| Risk assessment | |
| Risk perception | |
| Classificazione: | 70.10 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Risk and society |
| ISBN: | 9781848600584 |
| 9781446216323 | |
| 9780761947396 | |
| 0-7619-4739-6 | |
| 9786611361938 | |
| 1-281-36193-3 | |
| 1-84860-058-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813769203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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