manufactured risk

is a risk that occurs as a result of technological developments that presumably advance society but that have unanticipated consequences.

Manufactured risks are those that occur as a result of technological developments that presumably advance society but that have unanticipated consequences. ' (Banning 2005:78).

is invisible until it becomes a catastrophe and therefore leans heavily on the functioning of expert discourses for their identification, evaluation, and publicity.

Since these risks tend to be amorphous and often are relatively invisible to the eye before they reach critical stages (as in the case of disasters), publics are heavily dependent on the discourses of government, mass media and scientific and legal professions to identify, evaluate, and make public these risks.' (Banning 2005:78).

is the notion that uncontrollable risk is now deeply engineered into all the processes that sustain life in advanced society, outstripping our ability to calculate their probability or to insure ourselves against them.

These dangers shape a perception that 'uncontrollable risk is now irredeemable and deeply engineered into all the processes that sustain life in advanced societies.'8 They outstrip our ability to calculate their probability or to insure ourselves against them. According to Beck, the noninsurability of these megahazards is exemplary of a new social world in which technical expertise cannot calculate and manage the risks it generates.9 (Lakoff 2007 : 252)

manufactured risk, n.Definitions

manufactured risk