Brian Wynne & Scott M Lash 
Risk, Environment and Modernity [PDF ebook] 
Towards a New Ecology

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′.

Cuprins

Introduction – Bronislaw Szerszynski, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne

Ecology, Realism and the Social Sciences

PART ONE: ENVIRONMENT, KNOWLEDGE AND INDETERMINACY: BEYOND MODERNIST ECOLOGY?

Risk Society and Provident State – Ulrich Beck

May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide – Brian Wynne

Re-vision – Barbara Adam

The Centrality of Time for an Ecological Social Sciences Perspective

On Knowing What to Do – Bronislaw Szerszynski

Environmentalism and the Modern Problematic

PART TWO: RISK AND THE SELF: ENCOUNTERS AND RESPONSES

Life as a Planning Project – Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Individualization at Work – Marco Diani

Occupational Identity and Office Automation

The Tears inside the Stone – John Maguire

Reflections on the Ecology of Fear

Solitary Individualization – Helmuth Berking

The Moral Impact of Cultural Modernization in Late Modernity

PART THREE: THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT: EXHAUSTION OR RENEWAL?

The Institutionalization of Environmentalism – Klaus Eder

Ecological Discourse and the Second Transformation of the Public Sphere

The Shaping of the Global Environmental Agenda – Andrew Jamison

The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

Ecological Modernization as Cultural Politics – Maarten A Hajer

Environmental Knowledge and Public Policy Needs – Robin Grove-White

On Humanising the Research Agenda

Despre autor

I currently teach the twin courses FASS507, Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science, and SOCL922, Philosophies of Social Science. I also teach a block on SOCL101, Introduction to Sociology.