Risk, Environment and Society
Subtitle: Ongoing Debates, Current Issues and Future Prospects (Issues in Society)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: June 14, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780335207831
Subjects: Political science & theory; Social impact of environmental issues; Social theory; Social Science; Sociology; Future Studies; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Risk; Risk perception; Risk-taking (Psychology); Sociological aspects
First sentence: In accordance with the theoretical and methodological approach adopted in this book, I begin with a descriptive analysis of a series of international debates and controversies - collectively 'the risk discourse' - that started in the 1950s and 1960s.