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Risk Society and the Culture of Precaution

Risk Society and the Culture of Precaution

Risk Society and the Culture of Precaution Hardback - 2006 - 2006th Edition

by Ingo K Richter

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Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Modern societies have been termed risk societies. Western culture obviously is unable to cope with too much uncertainty. Risk management has become a paradigm for good governance and prudent policies. Further sociological analysis revea
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  • Title Risk Society and the Culture of Precaution
  • Author Ingo K Richter
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 2006th
  • Edition 2006
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date December 26, 2006
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781403996954_inp
  • ISBN 9781403996954
  • Quantity available 1007

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Modern societies have been termed 'risk societies' and risk management has become a paradigm for good governance. This fascinating collection, including an international array of contributors, examines the key 'threats' to society and subjects the public perception of uncertainty to sociological analysis.

About the author

E. REMI AIYEDE Co-ordinator of the National Governance Assessment Survey at the Development Policy Centre, Nigeria FREDERIC BOUDER Senior Research Fellow, King's Centre for Risk Management, King's College, London, UK ADAM BURGESS Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath, UK BRETT DAVIDSON Programme Manager at the Institute of Democracy (IDASA), South Africa MATTHIAS ECKER-EHRHARDT Senior Researcher at the Social Science Centre, Berlin, Germany HARALD HEINRICHS Associate Professor at the University of Lneberg, Germany BRBEL HHN MP for the German Green Party and Minister of the Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection for North Rhine-Westphalia, 1996-2005, Germany SHEILA JASANOFF Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA CHANDRIKA NATH Scientific Consultant at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, London, UK CHARLES PERROW Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University, USA HANS PETER PETERS Communication Researcher at the Research Centre Jlich, Germany (Humans Environment Technology Programme Group) and Honorary Professor at the Free University, Berlin, Germany GNTHER SCHMID Director at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin, Germany and Professor of Political Economy at the Free University, Berlin, Germany URSULA SCHRDER Researcher in the Department of Political and SocialSciences European University, Florence, Italy KLAUS TPFER Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya and Executive-Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
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