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	The development of ‘common risk’ society: overview
		New risks arise from the nature of modern social organization: there is risk 'stemming from the created environment, or socialized nature: the infusion of human knowledge into the material environment, and the development of 'institutionalized risk environments affecting the life-chances of millions' (e.g.
		Risk assessment is a complex and constantly changing affair even in the case of low-consequence risks; it becomes highly speculative in the context of the larger high-consequence issues.
		The pervasiveness of risk is not therefore because life is now inherently more risky but because ‘in conditions of modernity, for lay actors as well as for experts in specific fields, thinking in terms of risk and risk-assessment is a more or less ever-present exercise, of a partly imponderable character.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /Users/hafa3/crisksocs.htm (6465 words)

	'Democracy in the Risk Society
		Risk society is characterised as an ‘organised irresponsibility’ for which existing institutional arrangements are to blame (Beck 1995:58).
		The central claim of the risk society argument is that the societal project of ‘modernisation’ as we have known it for the last hundred and fifty years is no longer viable.
		Precisely as risk society theory has it, the established institutional response is to ask for new scientific predictions of traffic demand and to search for solutions predominantly in the application of new technologies (cf.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /tps/e-print/envpol99.htm (9420 words)

	Re-Licensing of Nuclear Facilities in Canada: The `Risk Society' in Action
		Often debates about risk frame issues to exclude public opposition to hazardous technology, invalidating risk perception of the public, and expunging the values and visions that influence the experts and scientists who determine levels of acceptable risk, and legitimize scientific modes of inquiry.
		In contrast to all earlier epochs (including industrial society), the risk society is characterized essentially by a lack: the impossibility of an external attribution of hazards.
		In such a climate, risk would be evaluated in terms of its political and social consequences, its possible disruptions in the social fabric or a loss of communality (Fiorino, 1989), rather than exclusively consider the possible effects on a hazard on human health and environment.
	www.sociology.org /content/vol003.001/mehta.html (9253 words)

	spiked-risk \| Article \| Risk, science and society
		Risks are attached to better growth - it has been suggested that the earlier onset of periods seen in adolescence indicates developments that may underlie the increase in carcinoma of the breast that is seen in some countries.
		Even when real risks are defined, the view of what any individual sees as acceptable will change in any real-life situation, where those who are injured (or believe themselves to be injured - it makes little difference) will redefine what is acceptable in terms of their own experience.
		Baird (33) found that knowledge tended to increase risk tolerance, but there are studies which suggest the opposite for radon (34), and there are also data showing a lack of relationship between factual knowledge and risk perception in female college students with regard to toxic shock syndrome (35).
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000002D29C.htm (4752 words)

	Risk Theory Society
		The Risk Theory Society, originally founded in August, 1963 as the Risk Theory Seminar, is a self-administered organization within the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) whose purpose is to foster research into topics in risk theory and risk management.
		The Society accomplishes its mission by hosting an annual meeting where papers that have been distributed to members in advance of the meeting are presented and critically discussed in an extended time format.
		The Society is provided financial support by Nationwide Insurance Company and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.
	www.aria.org /rts (190 words)

	SRA / Society for Risk Analysis / Journal
		Risk Analysis provides a focal point for new developments in risk analysis for scientists from a wide range of disciplines.
		The analysis of risks is being increasingly viewed as a field in itself, and the demand for a more orderly and formal treatment of risks is great.
		It deals with health risks, engineering, mathematical, and theoretical aspects of risks, and social and psychological aspects of risk such as risk perception, acceptability, economics, and ethics.
	www.sra.org /journal.php (189 words)

	Risk Characterization Report Understanding Risk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Descriptions of risk are typically stated in terms of the likelihood of harm or loss from a hazard and usually include: an identification of what is "at risk" and may be harmed or lost (e.g.
		The analytic-deliberative process leading to a risk characterization should include early and explicit attention to problem formulation; representation of the spectrum of interested and affected parties at this early stage is imperative.
		Those responsible for a risk characterization should begin by developing a provisional diagnosis of the decision situation so that they can better match the analytic-deliberative process leading to the characterization to the needs of the decision, particularly in terms of level and intensity of effort and representation of parties.
	www.riskworld.com /Nreports/1996/risk_rpt/html/nr6aa045.htm (1155 words)

	Logos Fall 2002: Ulrich Beck on World Risk Society
		When one says for example, that a smoker’s risk for cancer is X amount high and the catastrophe risk of a nuclear power plant Y amount, then this means that risks are avoidable negative consequences of decisions that appear predictable through the probability of accidents and diseases and thus unlike natural catastrophes.
		The world risk society requires a multilateralism of the sort in which Russia comes out of the role of the petitioner and switches over to the role of nation to be wooed.
		Therefore, it is the relexivity of the world risk society that breaks the silence of words and allows globality to become painfully aware of itself in its own context and builds new approaches to conflicts and alliances.
	logosonline.home.igc.org /beck.htm (6626 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| 'At risk' baby probe stopped by high court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Plymouth city council was successful in its attempt to stop a probe into the death of an infant on its at-risk register after the high court today overturned a coroner's decision to hold an in-depth investigation.
		But the court's decision does not prevent the coroner re-examining whether to expand his inquiry if he thinks the move is justified by new evidence coming to light in the future.
		There was nothing else in Perrin's history "which gave rise to significant alarm about Perrin's health or safety, let alone in terms of a threat to his life", said the judge.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Society/children/story/0,1074,1494127,00.html (714 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Theory, Culture & Society S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It applies throughout society and implies a changing relationship between social structures and social agents, leading to the individualization of decisions previously imposed by society.
		Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the "risk society".
		The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as an all-embracing global economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0803983468 (565 words)

	A Routledge Title: Health, Risk & Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Health Risk & Society is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes which influence the ways in which health risks are taken, communicated, assessed and managed.
		Although risk issues arise in a variety of areas, such as technological usage and the environment, they are particularly evident in health.
		Health, Risk & Society aims to stimulate wider study of the issues by providing a focus for study and publication by academics and practitioners on the relationship between health, risk and society.
	www.tandf.co.uk /journals/titles/13698575.asp (307 words)

	SRA / Society for Risk Analysis / Welcome! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		SRA / Society for Risk Analysis / Welcome!
		Risk analysis is broadly defined to include risk assessment, risk characterization, risk communication, risk management, and policy relating to risk.
		We analyze risks of concern to individuals, to public and private sector organizations, and to society at various geographic scales.
	www.sra.org (309 words)

	CJS Book Review: Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity
		Beck was well ahead of his time in calling attention to the importance of the conce pt of risk and the practice of risk management as essential features of modern society, and he is to be congratulated for his foresight.
		(6) "Acceptable levels'' of risk: goods such as pesticides and drugs (antibiotics) and many other useful chemicals (e.g., chlorine) are toxic by nature and design and depend for their utility on ou r being able to specify acceptable levels of exposure to humans, other animals, and the environment (64-9).
		At the same time, the formerly latent dimensions of producer-driven industrial risks are brought out into the open and can be apprehended for what they are, that is, as problems that (a) are formally constituted in scientific terms and (b) are a "new source of conflict and social formation'' (99).
	www.ualberta.ca /~cjscopy/articles/leiss.html (1358 words)

	Risk Analysis - Journal Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Published on behalf of the Society for Risk Analysis, Risk Analysis is ranked among the top 10 journals in the ISI Journal Citation Reports under the social sciences, mathematical methods category - and is designed to meet the need for organization, integration, and communication and provide a focal point for new developments in the field.
		The analysis of risk is being increasingly viewed as a field in itself, and the demand for a more orderly and formal treatment of risk is great.
		On the Risk of Mortality to Primates Exposed to Anthrax Spores
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /journal.asp?ref=0272-4332 (225 words)

	Welcome to the Society for Risk Analysis, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Membership is open to all professionals and students involved with risk assessment, risk characterization, risk communication, risk management, and policy relating to risk.
		Risk is defined broadly by SRA as those threats from physical, chemical, and biological agents and from a variety of human activities as well as natural events.
		The primary mission of the Pittsburgh Chapter is to provide a forum for professionals to participate in workshops and seminars at a local level and to encourage advancement and understanding of new methodologies and technology in the practice of risk analysis.
	www.srapittsburgh.org (156 words)

	Health Risk Communication (CBM 2000-7)
		Our concern for this bibliography is with the presentation of scientific risk information; the strategies, tactics, and models that are used to communicate scientific risk information to an audience; and the difficulty of translating scientific knowledge in a meaningful way to enable the public to make informed health decisions.
		Use of such terms such as "infinitesimal" and "probable" in defining risk place a great responsibility on those who determine what information is valuable and salient for their audience.
		Risk characterization and the weight of evidence: adapting gatekeeping concepts from the courts.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /pubs/cbm/health_risk_communication.html (8006 words)

	EU Commissioner Byrne: No Zero Risk Society - Health Supreme
		While I agree with what he says, I find it interesting that this statement comes at a time when the EU is discussing controls of toxic chemicals and when there is pressure from the chemical industry to water-down the proposed controls.
		If we fail to make progress [in understanding risk perception], there is a very real danger that an “anti-science” agenda may take root in European society – leading to a society hampered and restricted by a collective neurosis, lacking in self confidence, resistant to innovation and unwilling to embrace change.
		That is what apparently the new subject of "risk perception" is all about: Consumers have to be taught to properly perceive the different risks they face.
	www.newmediaexplorer.org /sepp/2004/03/31/eu_commissioner_byrne_no_zero_risk_society.htm (1572 words)

	SAGE Publications - Justice in the Risk Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In examining the challenges the risk society presents for established conceptions of justice she compels a profound rethinking of what justice does, and can, mean.
		Innovations in control and in penal policy are increasingly dominated by the theme of public protection, motivated by the aim of controlling risk rather than the aim of enhancing social justice.
		Justice in the Risk Society provides theoretical analysis with a discussion of policies, and arguments are illustrated by cases and examples.
	www.sagepub.co.uk /book.aspx?pid=102314 (446 words)

	SRA / Society for Risk Analysis / SRA 2004 Annual Meeting
		The sometimes spectacular failures of risk communication are often blamed on their ignorance of technical issues or their mistrust of industry or government.
		Given this history, we deduce evolutionary reasons why (i) people routinely misestimate risks, (ii) people are insensitive to prior probabilities, (iii) the notion of independence is so difficult to correctly interpret, and (iv) people concentrate on the worst case (and ignore how unlikely it is).
		In general, microbial risk assessors calculate expected values of the magnitude of growth without accounting for the possibility of no growth or the actual variability in microbial growth under representative conditions of the modeled scenarios.
	www.birenheide.com /sra/2004AM/program/singlesession.php3?sessid=W26 (1045 words)

	Society of Risk Management Consultants - Risk Management Consultants, Insurance Consultants and Employee Benefit ...
		The Society of Risk Management Consultants sets the standards for the professions of Risk Management Consulting, Insurance Consulting and Employee Benefit Consulting.
		Its mission is to advance these professions to benefit the consultants themselves, their clients and the public through research, education, the exchange of information, and the promotion of professional and ethical guidelines.
		It is important to understand that while Members of SRMC may provide Insurance Consulting services, members are often engaged for assignments that call for expertise in virtually all aspects of Risk Management, including Risk Identification, Risk Transfer, and Loss Control.
	www.srmcsociety.org (348 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management.
		The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution.
		The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0761964681 (337 words)

	lifelong learning @ the informal education homepage
		Since studies can no longer constitute a definitive 'whole', handed out to and received by a student before he embarks on adult life, whatever the level of his intellectual equipment and the age at which he does so, educational systems must be thought out afresh, in their entirely, as must our very conception of them.
		If learning involves all of one's life, in the sense of both time-span and diversity, and all of society, including its social and economic as well as its educational resources, then we must go even further than the necessary overhaul of 'educational systems' until we reach the stage of a learning society.
		As a result, Field goes on to suggest, many adults now take part in organized learning throughout their lifespan; that the post-school system is populated by adults as well as by young people; and that 'non-formal' learning permeates daily life and is valued (ibid.: 38-49).
	www.infed.org /lifelonglearning/b-life.htm (3984 words)

	Risk, Modeling and Society
		The RMS Program is focusing on the risks of natural disasters, especially the economic impacts of climate-related disasters in developing and transition countries.
		RMS is developing participatory methods that combine computer models with stakeholder processes that recognize value differences and concerns about fairness in sharing risk burdens.
		A challenge is developing models for robust solutions to catastrophic risk and other complex problems, taking account of large temporal/spatial scales, heterogeneities, endogenous uncertainties, interdependencies, and non-linear interactions that may lead to abrupt changes with catastrophic consequences.
	www.iiasa.ac.at /Research/RMS (320 words)

	Calls for Risk Papers: a listing of requests for papers on risk topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Health Risk and Society, an international, scholarly journal, is devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes that influence the ways in which risks are taken, communicated, assessed, and managed in relationship to health and health care.
		Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM), the second peer-reviewed journal of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), is devoted to bridging the gap between scientific research and the use of science in decision-making, regulation, and environmental management.
		Risk Management: An International Journal is published quarterly by Perpetuity Press, which specializes in books, journals, and manuals in the field of risk, security and crime prevention.
	www.riskworld.com /CALLpapr/CL8ME001.HTM (1099 words)

	Adolescence: Youth Crisis: Growing Up in the High-Risk Society. - Review - book review
		The crisis has been brought about by the general state of social crisis, violence, questions of political legitimacy, and educational decline, as well as the decline of compassion as a core principle of culture.
		The author draws on a variety of trends and scholarly research to examine the problems of growing up in a high-risk society and offers pathways to spiritual renewal and cultural renewal, essential for salvaging the next generation.
		The study takes on the youth crisis as a compelling public issue, exploring various manifestations of the crisis: endangered youth, gang participation, youth addictions, unworkable schools, violence in the home and on the streets, homelessness, and the near genocidal conditions that plague African American and urban youth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2248/is_136_34/ai_59810245 (239 words)

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