Download or read book Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk written by Ulrich Beck and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ∗ An original discussion of what "ecological problems" are - quite different from usual approaches. ∗ Develops and extends the arguments originally set out in Beck′s celebrated conception of the "risk society". ∗ Provides a new theory of politics - stressing the importance of issues which lie outside the formal political domain.