GEOG 2040Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Deep Geological Repository, Ontario Power Generation, Ulrich Beck

• School: Trent University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 2040Y
• Professor: Ryan Bowie

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Choose your topic one of the weekly sub-topics in the course syllabus. One of the course readings from your topic must be incorporated into your introduction (where you start, not end) Minimum 6 academic sources (journals and books), not including the course reading (non-academic sources are considered in addition to the minimum) Topics must be approved by your teaching assistant prior to submission. Concept of the risk society" introduced by ulrich beck and others in the 1980s as a way to link socio-economic trends with increasing environmental risks. Attention has shifted somewhat from the distribution of goods in industrial societies, to the distribution of bads" or risks. Risks have always existed, but the magnitude and reach of environmental risks is now global. A risk society is founded on a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induce and introduced by modernization itself (beck, 1992) Harder to site die to public opposition.