Eugene Rosa, Aaron McCright, Ortwin Renn

The Risk Society Revisited: Social Theory and Risk Governance

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Produktbeschreibung

Eugene A. Rosa (1941-2013) was the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Professor of Sociology, Affiliated Professor of Fine Arts, and Faculty Associate in the Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach at Washington State University. Ortwin Renn is Professor and Chair of Environmental Sociology and Technology Assessment at Stuttgart University (Germany). He directs the Stuttgart Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies at Stuttgart University (ZIRIUS) and the non-profit organization DIALOGIK, dedicated to facilitate the dialogue between science, technology, and society. Aaron M. McCright is Associate Professor of Sociology in Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Sociology, and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781439902592
• ISBN-10: 1439902593
• Artikelnr.: 42605313

Autorenporträt

Eugene A. Rosa (1941-2013) was the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Professor of Sociology, Affiliated Professor of Fine Arts, and Faculty Associate in the Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach at Washington State University. Ortwin Renn is Professor and Chair of Environmental Sociology and Technology Assessment at Stuttgart University (Germany). He directs the Stuttgart Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies at Stuttgart University (ZIRIUS) and the non-profit organization DIALOGIK, dedicated to facilitate the dialogue between science, technology, and society. Aaron M. McCright is Associate Professor of Sociology in Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Sociology, and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Risk Society as Political Category, by Ulrich Beck
Preface 
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Sketching the Contemporary Era
 
Part I. Social Science Foundations of Risk
1  Meta-Theoretical Foundations
2  An Evolution of Risk: Why Social Science Is Needed to Understand Risk
 
Part II. Risk and Social Theory
3  Overarching Perspective: The Rational Action Framework
4  Refl exive Modernization Theory and Risk: The Work of Ulrich Beck and
Anthony Giddens
5  Risk in Systems: The Work of Niklas Luhmann
6  Jürgen Habermas and Risk: An Alternative to RAP?
 
Part III. Risk Governance: Links between Theory and Strategy
7 The Emergence of Systemic Risks
8 The Three Companions of Risk: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity
9 Risk Governance: A Synthesis
10 An Analytic-Deliberative Process: A Proposal for Better Risk Governance
 
Conclusion: Risk Governance as a Catalyst for Social Theory and Praxis
 
References
Index