Manufactured risk

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"Manufactured risks" are risks that are produced by the modernization process, particularly by innovative developments in science and technology. They create risk environments that have little historical reference, and are therefore largely unpredictable. Manufactured risk produces a risk society.In addition, Manufactured risk refers to risk situations which people have very little historical experience for confronting. Manufactured risk doesn't only concern nature - or what used to be nature. It penetrates into other areas of life too. According to Ulrich Beck (1992) Life has always been dangerous and hazardous for human beings. But for most of human history, the dangers came from what Beck calls natural risks, such as floods and epidemics. Industrialization created obvious problems of its own: pollution and other urban poverty-related conditions, what Beck calls manufactured risks, risks that are human-made. The transition from external to manufactured risk can be described as "At a certain point, however - very recently in historical terms - we started worrying less about what nature can do to us, and more about what we have done to nature."[1]

References

  1. ↑ BBC online Network,Reith Lectures 1999,RUNAWAY WORLD, Lecture 2-Risk- Hong Kong
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