Comments on: The Bhopal Disaster and World Risk Society

By: characteristic of public goods

characteristic of public goods — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:36:11 +0000

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By: Henry Stern, LUTCF, CBC

Henry Stern, LUTCF, CBC — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:35:58 +0000

Cavalcade of Risk #56 now online

Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon hosts his 2nd Cav, and your post is in it:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/07/16/cavalcade-of-risk-56/

Please let your readers know.

And if you’d like to host a Cavalcade, and you really should, just drop us a line. It’s fun and easy, and a nice traffic bump.

Thanks!

Hank Stern

By: João Areosa

João Areosa — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:50:49 +0000

Thank you!
I agree with you, the theory of risk society is powerful, but it have had some empirical problems.

By: SocProf

SocProf — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:53:37 +0000

Joao, please do send me your paper (the blog email is fine).

Risk society is, I think, one of the most powerful theories to analyze contemporary society.

And your idea of a paper is a good one. Let’s talk again about this in October, when you have more time.

Good luck with the Ph.D!

By: João Areosa

João Areosa — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:49:28 +0000

Hi SocProf,

Excellent post… congratulations!

I’m a PhD student, and the issue of my academic work it’s about risks and accidents.
I’ll send you my last paper (in Portuguese, sorry!) about social theory of risk. Can I use the e-mail of the blog to send the paper?
When you have some free time you can check other discussion about risk in another blog.
The site is that:
http://antropocoiso.blogspot.com/2008/05/risco-em-debate.html

If you like this subject we should writing one paper, may be with another colleagues, about globalization of risks and accidents. What do you think about that? Now I don’t have any free time, because I need to finish another work until the end of September, but in October we can talk about that.

See you!