Human Risk in Agriculture: Problems and Perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
Laura Girdžiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Human Risk

A Slow Unfolding “Fault Sequence”: Risk and Responsibility in Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Julia Hoydis
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Human Risk ◽  
Collective Risk ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Personal Crisis ◽  
Dramatic Text

AbstractBritish playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children (2016) tackles the imaginative challenge of depicting environmental crisis, in particular the risks of nuclear destruction and climate change. With questions of intra- and intergenerational justice being at the heart of the dramatic text, this article draws on conceptions and insights from cultural risk theory to argue that human risk behaviour and decision-making is the play’s main focus and determines characterisation as well as structure. Interrogating the tension between aesthetic form and content, it shows how The Children naturalizes the (post-)apocalyptic condition and strives for a balance of scales with regard to collective and personal crisis. Characteristic of the rapidly growing corpus of contemporary “cli-fi” drama, and in accordance with many of the strategies proclaimed by climate communication theory, the play stages the catastrophic implications of environmental destruction predominantly as collective risk management and in a predominantly realist manner, discarding formal experimentation as well as futurist setting. Yet this article argues that it remains ambiguous what kind of risk management is proposed and whether we should read it as a call for action or as an imaginative means of accepting finitude.

Quantitative human risk analysis of 2015 Shenzhen dump failure considering influence of urbanization

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1439-1457
Author(s):  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Bate Bate ◽  
Da-lei Peng ◽  
Can Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Human Risk

Environmental Contaminants in the Botanical Dietary Supplement Ginseng and Potential Human Risk

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Huggett ◽  
D. S. Block ◽  
I. A. Khan ◽  
J. C. Allgood ◽  
W. H. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Supplement ◽  
Environmental Contaminants ◽  
Human Risk
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