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World at Risk, edited by Ulrich Beck. English Edition, Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge/UK and Malden/MA: Polity Press, 2009, 269 pp., $24.95, Paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Melissa Gabler*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Canada

Abstract

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References

1 Beck, Ulrich, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (London: Sage 1992)Google Scholar.

2 Beck, Ulrich, World at Risk (Cambridge: Polity Press 2009), at p. 27 Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 55.

4 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 36.

5 Ibid., supra note 2, at pp. 119, 194.

6 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 8.

7 Beck, Ulrich, World Risk Society (Cambridge: Polity Press 1999)Google Scholar.

8 Beck, “World at Risk”, supra note 2, at p. 32.

9 Ibid., supra note 2, at pp. 41, 80.

10 Beck, World at Risk, supra note 2, at p. 198.

11 Ibid., supra note 2, at pp. 15, 41, 55, 79, 199.

12 Ibid., supra note 2, at pp. 19, 55.

13 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 67.

14 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 20.

15 Beck, Ulrich, Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk (Cambridge: Polity Press 2002)Google Scholar.

16 Beck, “World at Risk”, supra note 2, at pp. 9, 52.

17 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 52.

18 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 28.

19 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 67.

20 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 30.

21 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 84.

22 Ibid., supra note 2, at pp. 76–77.

23 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 77.

24 Ibid., supra note 2, at pp. 37, 198.

25 Ibid., supra note 2, at pp. 41, 59.

26 Ibid., supra note 2, at p. 207.