In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.