World risk society / Ulrich Beck.

By:

Beck, Ulrich, 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Malden, Mass : Polity Press, 1999.Description: vii, 184 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0745622216 (pbk.) ; 0745622208

DDC classification:

302.12 21

Contents:

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	302.12 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011650232

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Manifesto -- 2. World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties -- 3. From Industrial Society to Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment -- 4. Risk Society and the Welfare State -- 5. Subpolitics: Ecology and the Disintegration of Institutional Power -- 6. Knowledge or Unawareness? Two Perspectives on 'Reflexive Modernization' -- 7. Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics, Critiques and Research Programmes.

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