Risk in the Modern Age - Cohen, Maurie
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From nuclear power to food safety, scientific experts and members of the lay public differ sharply on the assessment of risk. Is there any way to bridge the divide between these competing epistemologies? In recent years social theorists have begun to turn their attention to this perplexing issue and to examine what risk controversies might be able to tell us about the current phase of modernity. This volume consists of contributions by leading environmental sociologists who explore how sociological insights can help inform environmental decision-making.

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From nuclear power to food safety, scientific experts and members of the lay public differ sharply on the assessment of risk. Is there any way to bridge the divide between these competing epistemologies? In recent years social theorists have begun to turn their attention to this perplexing issue and to examine what risk controversies might be able to tell us about the current phase of modernity. This volume consists of contributions by leading environmental sociologists who explore how sociological insights can help inform environmental decision-making.
Autorenporträt
MAURIE J. COHEN is Visiting Assistant Professor at Binghampton University and an Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Mansfield College, Oxford University. He is co-editor of ‘The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Readings on a Modern Social Problem’. Dr Cohen's work has appeared in’ Land Economics, Society and National Resource’s and’ Public Understanding of Science’.