To the concept of the ecological risk. Analytical review of the publications

The article provides an overview of some of the publications on the theory and the concept of the risk in the context of the definition of the environmental risk for the period from the end of the XX-th century to 2013. Attention is given to the role and place of the theory of risk, the development of "risk" of thinking within the paradigm of the "green economy", the dynamics of changes in the concept of the risk and different approaches to the definition of risk in the insurance business, financial operations, the military, in the task of ensuring food safety and health in hazardous production, environmental science and the practical arrangements for the protection of nature.