Conference paper
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENDANGERINGAND THE IDEA OF ENVIRONMENTAL PREVENTION
Klaus P. Japp
; University of Bielefeld
Abstract
The approach to the idea of environmental prevention, in the context of responsibility for environmental endangering no matter of the guilt, is as to the modern myth — similarly as to the myth of rationality, that, of course, does not mean that these myths do not have any effect. Organizations exist, above all, in this way that they avoid rationality of anticipation. In conditions of environmental uncertainty, organizations exist so as to avoid active prevention. On the example of environmental responsibility for environmental endangering, the paper shows that organizations symbolically react to the expected prevention and operatively avoid it. The evolution of risk substitutes rationality of prevention.
Keywords
environmental prevention; environmental uncertainty; evolution of risk; myth of rationality; rationality of prevention; risk
Hrčak ID:
141472
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Publication date:
15.10.1996.
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