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Risk and society /

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Risk has come to dominate individual and collective consciousness in the 21st century. Although global insecurity is related to terrorism, pollution, global epidemics and famine, risks involved in ordinary life such as food, tobacco smoking, sunlight and travel have also become major preoccupations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denney, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2005.
Subjects:
Risk > Sociological aspects.
Risk assessment.
Risk perception.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Understanding risk
  • The nature of risk
  • Theoretical positions
  • Pt. II. Living in the risk society
  • Risk and everyday experience
  • Health and risk
  • Professional practices and risk
  • Communicating risk through the media
  • Risk and social welfare
  • Risk management and crime
  • Pt. III. International and global risk
  • Risk and the new terrorism
  • The management and regulation of risk
  • Risk and the environment
  • Risk and global governance
  • Risk and the new world order
  • The risk society : an assessment.