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

This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political

What does it mean to live in `risk society'? How does the idea of risk change how we live with each other? Risk currently dominates individual and collective co

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always h

Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think