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World Risk Society and Constructing Cosmopolitan Realities: A Bourdieusian Critique of Risk Society [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2022
Current global crises and threats have revealed the growing implications of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society. Rather than being a theory of risk, risk society theory is more a social theory of the new social world and modernity.
Abbas Jong
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A Risk Society [PDF]

open access: yesRural Health Care DeliveryModern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics, 2013
“Risk society” is a concept that was first framed by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck in Risk Society in 1986. In Beck’s view, the modern society had deviated from (Karl Marx’s) class society or (Max Weber’s) industrial society and had developed into a social form that is highly modern, known as the “risk society.” Social theories based on unequal ...
Hu Y.
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Examination of the factors that influence public perception of mythically-based human behavior in disaster conditions [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2020
Starting from the importance of risk perception for taking certain preventive measures to protect people and their property from disasters, the subject of the research is to examine the factors influencing public perception of mythically-based ...
Cvetković Vladimir, Jovanović Marina
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PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON NATURAL DISASTERS

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2021
The aim of the research is the examination of the factors influencing the public perception of climate change and its impact on natural disasters. This paper presents the results of quantitative research regarding testing the central hypothesis where ...
Vladimir M. Cvetković, Lazar Grbić
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Limit conditions on local failure of nuclear containment steels (Notched round-bar tensile tests for base metals and weld joint materials)

open access: yesNihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2023
Tensile tests were conducted for notched round-bar specimens to acquire the limit conditions of local failure, which is ductile failure after large local deformation for three types of steel, SGV480, SPV490 and SGV410, for nuclear containment structures.
Hitoshi NAKAMURA   +2 more
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Limit conditions on local failure of nuclear containment steels (Tensile tests for notched plate and notched thick plate specimens)

open access: yesNihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2023
A series of tensile tests were conducted for notched plate specimens whose shapes are similar to the pressure shell to clarify the local failure characteristics for the steel nuclear containment.
Hitoshi NAKAMURA   +2 more
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Risk Society and Distopia / Androidler Elektrikli Koyun Düşler mi? Risk Toplumu ve Distopya [PDF]

open access: yesFolklor/Edebiyat, 2022
This study seeks to investigate the work titled “Do The Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” a cult science fiction work written by Philip K. Dick in 1968, in terms of Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society” theory.
Halil Özdemir*, Sadullah Seyidoğlu**
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Features of the social determination of mass diseases in the risk society [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика, 2022
Introduction. The subject of the study is the social determinants of mass diseases of non-infectious origin and the traumatic nature of social changes taking place in modern society.
Zhukovskaya, Natalia Yurievna   +1 more
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Diet, life-style and cardiovascular morbidity in the rural, free living population of Elafonisos island

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background There are about 70 small islands in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, of less than 300 Km2 and 5000 inhabitants each, comprising a total population of more than 75,000 individuals with geographical and socioeconomic characteristics of special ...
Chris J. Kapelios   +6 more
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A shapley value approach to pricing climate risks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper prices the risk of climate change by calculating a lower bound for the price of a virtual insurance policy against climate risks associated with the business as usual (BAU) emissions path. In analogy with ordinary insurance pricing, this price
Cooke, Roger M
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