Publisher's Synopsis
"Risk, Environment and Society is an inventive and core text within the framework of risk studies, and should be read first by any scholar interrested in that field. If you are a newcomer in that field, this is the book to begin with, because it is clear and extensive. … Among recent books, I can't think of a more useful scholarly achievement in risk studies, making Piet Strydom one of the true leading theorists in his discipline."
Sociological Research On-Line
- How and why have the closed expert debates of past decades become an open public discourse about nuclear, environmental and biotechnological risks?
- What can a cultural and institutional analysis reveal about risks and their social construction?
- Is it possible to develop a new critical theory of the risk society?
