Scott M Lash / Bronislaw Szerszynski / Brian Wynne (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Risk, Environment and Modernity

Towards a New Ecology

Herausgeber: Lash, Scott M; Wynne, Brian; Szerszynski, Bronislaw

Beschreibung

This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in `risk societies'.

Autor

Scott Lash is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and he is the author of The End of Organized Capitalism; Economies of Signs and Space (both with John Urry); and The Sociology of Post Modernism; Brian Wynne is Professor of Science Studies at Lancaster University, is the author of Rationality as Ritual; Bronislaw Szersynski, Lancaster University is researching the relation between ethics and social/cultural movements. CONTRIBUTORS Barbara Adam University of Wales Cardiff Ulrich Beck University of Munich Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim University of Hamburg Helmut Berking Free University Berlin Marco Diani CNRS Paris Robin Grove-White University of Lancaster Maarten Hajer University of Munich Klaus Eder Humboldt University Berlin Andrew Jamison University of Lund John Maguire University College Cork

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780803979383
• ISBN-10: 080397938X
• Artikelnr.: 21598378