Living in the world risk society

By U. Beck. 2006

750 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. V. Nair
2. C. Yang
3. S. Mark Howden
4. Lauren Rickards

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. V. Nair
2. C. Yang
3. S. Mark Howden
4. Lauren Rickards

In Sociology and Political Science

1. V. Nair
2. C. Yang
3. S. Mark Howden
4. Lauren Rickards

Citations in the corpus

• Risk Perception Study in Tourism: Are we Really Measuring Perceived Risk? (2014, background): “The trend is not beyond expectation as Beck (2006) contends that our society is moving from a society of classes to a society of risks, which”
• Fear and risk in the audit process (2014, background): “It is in this sense that we portray auditing as ‘an impossible mission’, typical of the desire of certainty characterizing the risk society, despite more or less ‘unadmitted not knowing’ (Beck, 2006).”
• Transformational adaptation: agriculture and climate change (2012, background): “…adaptation: those costs arising out of the unexpected, often long-term and long distance risks created by our actions, epitomised by climate change itself (Beck 2006) that can be systematically hidden from view if a narrow conceptualisation of value is used in economic framing (Costanza2001).”