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Environmental decision-making in recent decades has become increasingly dependent on scientific expertise. Grounded in universal principles of knowledge, these expert evaluations often depart from the assessments of ordinary members of the public. Whether the issue is nuclear power, genetic testing, food safety, or biodiversity, conservation lay people are increasingly charging experts with being ignorant of local contextual considerations. Scientists, as well as many policy-makers, in turn contend that the public is hopelessly irrational in gauging environmental risks. A growing group of social theorists has begun to take a keen interest in these disputes because risk captures central themes of late modernity. Increasing individualization, emerging new social movements, and declining public trust in key institutions are notions that loom large in these debates. Highlighting both theoretical and empirical perspectives, this volume brings together a distinguished group of environmental sociologists who critique and extend current thinking on what it means to live in a 'risk society'.
Author Notes
Maurie J. Cohen is Research Fellow in Environmental Risk at the Oxford Center for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Mansfield College.
Table of Contents
| Part I Introduction |
| Sociology, Social Theory, and Risk: An Introductory DiscussionMaurie J. Cohen |
| Part II Critiques of Risk and Rationality |
| The Rational Action Paradigm in Risk Theories: Analysis and CritiqueOrtwin Renn and Carlo Jaeger and Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Webler |
| Menus of Choice: The Social Embeddedness of DecisionsKristen Purcell and Lee Clarke and Linda Renzulli |
| Part III Theoretical Extensions of the Risk Society |
| Dealing with Environmental Risks in Reflexive ModernityJoris Hogenboom and Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren |
| The Risk Society Reconsidered: Recreancy, The Division of Labor, and Risks to the Social FabricWilliam R. Freudenburg |
| Part IV Empirical Assessments of Reflective Modernization |
| Outsiders Just Don't Understand: The Need for Contextual Inquiry about Life in the Contaminated WorldMichael Edelstein |
| The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Localized Environmental Catastrophe: Dis(similarities) to the Risk SocietyJ. Steven Picou and Duane Gill |
| Part V Risk and Environmental Decision-Making |
| Discovering and Inventing Extreme Environments: Sociological Knowledge and Publics at RiskStephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith and Jeffrey Kindler |
| Scientific Evidence or Lay People's Experience? On Risk and Trust with Regard to Modern Environmental ThreatsRolf Lidskog |
| Taming Risks Through Dialogue: The Social Function of Discursive Institutions in Late ModernityKlaus Eder |
| Part VI Conclusion |
| A Historical Perspective on RiskDavid Lowenthal |
| Part I Introduction |
| Sociology, Social Theory, and Risk: An Introductory DiscussionMaurie J. Cohen |
| Part II Critiques of Risk and Rationality |
| The Rational Action Paradigm in Risk Theories: Analysis and CritiqueOrtwin Renn and Carlo Jaeger and Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Webler |
| Menus of Choice: The Social Embeddedness of DecisionsKristen Purcell and Lee Clarke and Linda Renzulli |
| Part III Theoretical Extensions of the Risk Society |
| Dealing with Environmental Risks in Reflexive ModernityJoris Hogenboom and Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren |
| The Risk Society Reconsidered: Recreancy, The Division of Labor, and Risks to the Social FabricWilliam R. Freudenburg |
| Part IV Empirical Assessments of Reflective Modernization |
| Outsiders Just Don't Understand: The Need for Contextual Inquiry about Life in the Contaminated WorldMichael Edelstein |
| The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Localized Environmental Catastrophe: Dis(similarities) to the Risk SocietyJ. Steven Picou and Duane Gill |
| Part V Risk and Environmental Decision-Making |
| Discovering and Inventing Extreme Environments: Sociological Knowledge and Publics at RiskStephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith and Jeffrey Kindler |
| Scientific Evidence or Lay People's Experience? On Risk and Trust with Regard to Modern Environmental ThreatsRolf Lidskog |
| Taming Risks Through Dialogue: The Social Function of Discursive Institutions in Late ModernityKlaus Eder |
| Part VI Conclusion |
| A Historical Perspective on RiskDavid Lowenthal |
