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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.
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Revisiting Risk Society: A Conversation with Ulrich Beck
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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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.
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"Editorial Introduction: Risk, Culture and Social Theory in Comparative Perspective"
Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.
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"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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"Science and Society in Historical Perspective: Implications for Social Theories of Risk"
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
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"Community and Life-Chances: Risk Movements in the United States and Germany"
Jost Halfmann illustrates the differences between images of risk by comparing the American and German anti-nuclear movements.
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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.
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"Globalisation, Environmental Degradation and Ulrich Beck's Risk Society"
Brent K. Marshall discusses globalization, environmental degradation, and Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society.”
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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.