Risk Society and the Culture of Precaution

ISBN-13: 9781403996954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 259 str.

Ingo K. Richter; Sabine Berking; Ralf Muller-Schmid

Opis

Modern societies have been termed 'risk societies' and risk management has become a paradigm for good governance. This fascinating collection, including an international array of contributors, examines the key 'threats' to society and subjects the public perception of uncertainty to sociological analysis.

Spis treści

List of tables and figures Foreword Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE POLITICS OF RISK The United Nations - Stability through Diversity; K.Töpfer Risk in Hindsight - Toward a Politics of Reflection; S.Jasanoff Culture, Structure, and Risk; C. Perrow The Principle of Precaution in EU-Environmental Policy; B.Höhn PART II: SECURITY POLICIES: ASSESSING AND MITIGATING RISKS Security Policies in an Transnational Setting; U.Schröder Terrorist Attacks at Nuclear Facilities; C.Nath The Case of Oil Exploitation in Nigeria; E. Remi Aiyede PART III: PUBLIC HEALTH: LIMITS OF THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE The Responsibilities of the Media in Dealing with HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa; B.Davidson A Comparative Analysis of Risk Perception Related to Human Health Issues; F.Bouder Risk, Precaution and the Media: The 'Story' of Mobile Phone Health Risks in the UK; A.Burgess PART IV: PROBLEMS OF RISK COMMUNICATION The Rhetoric of Risk and Responsibility - Understanding the German Public Debate on EU Enlargement; M.Ecker-Ehrhardt Media Communication, Citizens and Transnational Risks - The Case of Climate Change and Coastal Protection; H.Heinrichs & H.P.Peters Index

O autorze

E. REMI AIYEDE Co-ordinator of the National Governance Assessment Survey at the Development Policy Centre, Nigeria FREDERIC BOUDER Senior Research Fellow, King's Centre for Risk Management, King's College, London, UK ADAM BURGESS Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath, UK BRETT DAVIDSON Programme Manager at the Institute of Democracy (IDASA), South Africa MATTHIAS ECKER-EHRHARDT Senior Researcher at the Social Science Centre, Berlin, Germany HARALD HEINRICHS Associate Professor at the University of Lüneberg, Germany BÄRBEL HÖHN MP for the German Green Party and Minister of the Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection for North Rhine-Westphalia, 1996-2005, Germany SHEILA JASANOFF Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA CHANDRIKA NATH Scientific Consultant at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, London, UK CHARLES PERROW Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University, USA HANS PETER PETERS Communication Researcher at the Research Centre Jülich, Germany (Humans Environment Technology Programme Group) and Honorary Professor at the Free University, Berlin, Germany GÜNTHER SCHMID Director at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin, Germany and Professor of Political Economy at the Free University, Berlin, Germany URSULA SCHRÖDER Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences European University, Florence, Italy KLAUS TÖPFER Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya and Executive-Director of the United Nations Environment Programme