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Risk society and COVID-19. [PDF]
Can J Public Health, 2021 Dear Editor: Today, social risks have become part of our daily lives as human beings. The German sociologist Ulrich Beck defined them as the systematic way of dealing with the perils and insecurities resulting from modernization. He attributed this issue
Mansouri F, Sefidgarbaei F.
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Risk Society and Science Education: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Sci Educ (Dordr), 2021 The current COVID-19 pandemic raises reflection on the new roles of science education in citizen education in a world characterized by civilization risks, derived from the current socioeconomic development.
Pietrocola M +3 more
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One globalisation or many? Risk society in the age of the Anthropocene
, 2021 My goal in this article is to reconsider current ideas of globalisation, and of the relations between nature and society, by looking at two theoretical programmes of the past four decades. I start by reconsidering Ulrich Beck’s theory of risk society and
Daniel Chernilo
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, 2020 At the end of March 2020, international media present Swedish management of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as soft and irresponsible. Thus, Sweden, which is usually regarded as exceptionally risk averse and cautious, has chosen an unexpected risk ...
Katarina Giritli Nygren, A. Olofsson
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First record of leucism in the Spix’s disc-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor (Chiroptera, Thyropteridae), in Belize [PDF]
Neotropical Biology and ConservationAlthough chromatic disorders are widely reported in the animal kingdom, few reports of true leucism have been published in Neotropical bats. In this note we report our observations of a leucistic Thyroptera tricolor Spix (Spix’s Disc-winged Bat) in the ...
Vanessa I. Martin +3 more
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Organizing Risk: Organization and Management Theory for the Risk Society
The Academy of Management Annals, 2020 Risk has become a crucial part of organizing, affecting a wide range of organizations in all sectors. We identify, review and integrate diverse literatures relevant to organizing risk, building on an existing framework that describes how risk is ...
C. Hardy +3 more
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Participation in non-formal education in risk society
International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020 The participation of adults in lifelong learning has undergone significant development in the last few years, with the percentage of adults participating in non-formal education (NFE) risen dramatically.
Jan Kalenda, I. Kočvarová
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Risks, 2020 In the context of the digitization of delinquent activities, perpetrated via the internet, the question of the most appropriate means of crime prevention and crime repression is once again being raised.
Barlatier Jerome
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Sustainability, 2020 The issue of creating more sustainable mobility systems has been revisited during the past 50 years. So far, we are still waiting for an innovative systemic change that is not simply an iteration of existing technologies.
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen +4 more
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