Living in the world risk societyمجتمع المخاطر

Living in the world risk
society
A Hobhouse Memorial Public Lecture given on
Wednesday 15 February 2006 at the London
School of Economics

Abstract
In a world risk society, we must distinguish between ecological and financial dangers,
which can be conceptualized as side effects, and the threat from terrorist networks as
intentional catastrophes; the principle of deliberately exploiting the vulnerability of
modern civil society replaces the principle of chance and accident.
Keywords: risk; catastrophe; not-knowing; enlightenment function of world risk
society; cosmopolitan realpolitik .

http://hudson2.skidmore.edu/~rscarce/Soc-Th-Env/Env%20Theory%20PDFs/Beck--WorldRisk.pdf