"The Songlines of Risk"
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
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"Industrial Food for Thought: Timescapes of Risk"
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
Grove-White, Robin, "Afterword: On 'Sound Science', the Environment, and Political Authority"
Robin Grove-White writes an afterword on this special issue of Environmental Values.
"Re-framing Flood Control in England and Wales"
In their article, William R. Sheate and J. Ivan Scrase argue that for a risk-oriented framing to succeed, new assumptions about causation and a new ethical outlook are now needed.
"Environmental Risks, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics"
The aim of this paper is to consider more closely how uncertainty affects our moral responsibility to future generations, and to what extent moral agents can be held responsible for activities that inflict risks on future people.
"Risk, Trust and 'The Beyond' of the Environment: A Brief Look at the Recent Case of Mad Cow Disease in the United States"
Using a case of mad cow disease in the United States, this paper argues, statements of risk are ultimately social products that come to us by way of translation.
A Farewell to Residual Risk? A Legal Perspective on the Risks of Nuclear Power after Fukushima
With reference to Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society, this article considers the paradoxical managing of nuclear risk, considered at once too risky for German risk society and yet socially acceptable for a further ten years.
Revisiting Risk Society: A Conversation with Ulrich Beck
About this issue
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, a group of scholars reflect on Ulrich Beck’s influential Risk Society (1986). They seek to critically historicize the concept of risk society, considering how it might be a product of its particular time and place as well as what it means for public debate and scholarship in the early twenty-first century.
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Historische Humanökologie: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Menschen und Ihrer Umwelt
Prominent Austrian and German scholars combine science and humanities in interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment.