Risk, Environment and Modernity
Subtitle: Towards a New Ecology (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Contributors: Scott M Lash (Editor); Bronislaw Szerszynski (Editor); Brian Wynne (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: August 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780803979376
Subjects: Ergonomics; Human ecology; Impact of science & technology on society; Sociology, Social Studies; Environmental risk assessment; Environmental Risk (Engineering); Sociological Theory; Social Science; Environmental Studies; Sociology - General; Sociology; Environmental Science; Social Science / Sociology / General; Environmental policy
First sentence: If modernisation is understood as a process of innovation which has become autonomous, then it must also be accepted that modernity itself ages.