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Keywords
- environment
- environmental policy
- European Union (EU)
- Governance
- government
- health
- Policy
- terrorism
- United Nations
About this book
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.
About the authors
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 SocialSciences 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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk Society and the Culture of Precaution
Editors: I. Richter, S. Berking, R. Müller-Schmid
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9695-4Published: 31 October 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 259