Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology

1998/01/01 by Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Brian Wynne · 1 voice · 4 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development #Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

paper · doi:10.4135/9781446221983

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Abstract

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'

Cited by

• Kentucky’s “Atomic Graveyard”: Maxey Flats and Environmental Inequity in Rural America
• Towards Sustainable Agriculture: Current Debates
• Complaints in environmental health and the construction of risk as cultural resource
• Producing the ideal fascist landscape: nature, materiality and the cinematic representation of land reclamation in the Pontine Marshes

Discussions

• “May the Sheep Safely Graze?” (1998) by Brian Wynne probes the expert-lay divide, showing how local knowledges – like farmers’ insights on soil & sheep – are sidelined. He reframes science as cultural [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]