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  • - Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
    av Ortwin Renn
    579 - 1 959,-

    Provides guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. This title offers a survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can participate in inclusive risk governance.

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    349,-

    This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public understanding and trust. This book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and policy makers with an interest in risk analysis.

  • av George Cvetkovich
    678 - 2 060,-

    Social trust is a crucial issue to many aspects of modern society. Policy makers continually aspire to winning it and corporations frequently run the risk of losing it. This book provides an analysis for researchers and students of environmental and social sciences and suitable for those engaged in risk management in public and private sectors.

  • av Baruch (Carnegie Mellon University) Fischhoff
    734 - 2 682,-

  • - Improving Decision Making
    av Laurence Ball-King, Middlesex University) Ball, David J. (Professor of Risk Management, m.fl.
    555 - 1 931,-

    Intends to encourage a multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this phenomenon. This book examines the origins of the problem, looks at the tools used by safety assessors and their underlying assumptions, and considers important differences between public life and industry.

  • - How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes
     
    2 209,-

    Through its exploration of the spatial dimensions of risk, this book offers an approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in to how manage, tolerate and take risks. It examines a range of risks, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and state failure.

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    793,-

    There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws together new examples of research and practice from contexts as diverse as energy generation, human health, nuclear waste, climate change, food choice, and social media. This book treats risk communication as much more than the interchange of risk information between experts and non-experts; rather, it aims to emphasise the diversity in viewpoints and practices. In each specially commissioned chapter, the authors reflect on the theoretical and applied underpinnings of their best projects and comment on how their approach could be used effectively by others. Building upon each other, the chapters will provoke new discussion and action around a discipline which many feel is neither meeting important needs in practice, nor living up to its potential in research. Through a more careful examination of the work already done in risk communication, the book will help develop better, more reflective practice for the future.

  • - Developing Policy-Oriented Scenarios
     
    1 959,-

    Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. Based on an intensive five year study of how experts actually go about assessing the future, this title provides an examination of foresighting in action. It aims to help readers to reflect on their own practices of public-oriented foresight.

  • - Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind
    av Timothy C. Earle
    741 - 2 141,-

    Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. This book explores various aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. It draws on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies.

  • - Multidisciplinary Perspectives
     
    584,-

    Uncertainty governs our lives. This title examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics. It focuses on key problems such as environmental management, communicable diseases and illicit drugs. It offers major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking.

  • av Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd & Ylva Uggla
    634 - 1 815,-

    Analyses the regulation of 4 kinds of complex and trans-boundary environmental issues: oil protection in the Baltic Sea, mobile phones and radiation protection, climate change adaptation and genetically modified crops. This work offers insights into how dominant frames are constructed, legitimate actors are configured and authority is established.

  • - A New Framework for Risk Management
     
    647,-

    Offers a topical perspective on the alternative concept of 'Tolerability of Risk' and its regulatory applications. This book presents a summary of theoretical perspectives on risk approaches, providing elicitation of the methods and approaches used to build the Tolerability of Risk framework.

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    1 815,-

    Brings together some of the top authors from the fields of risk, philosophy, social sciences and psychology to address the issue of how we should decide how far technological risks are morally acceptable or not. This book is suitable for researchers and students.

  • - Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind
    av Timothy C. Earle
    621 - 1 506,-

    Explores aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. This book is an examination of trust in its forms and complexities. It integrates diverse research traditions and provides insights into the phenomenon of trust.

  • - Multidisciplinary Perspectives
     
    1 938,-

    Uncertainty governs our lives. This title draws theoretical perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. It examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics.

  • av Susan L. Cutter
    836,-

    From Hurricane Katrina and the south Asian tsunami to human-induced atrocities, terrorist attacks and the looming effects of climate change, the world is assailed by both natural and unnatural hazards and disasters. These expose not only human vulnerability, but also the profound worldwide environmental injustices. This work assesses these themes.

  • av Baruch (Carnegie Mellon University) Fischhoff
    786 - 2 051,-

  • - Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology
    av Paul Slovic
    711 - 1 953,-

    The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. This title presents an examination of how and why stigma occurs and what the appropriate responses to it should be to inform the public and reduce undesirable impacts.

  • av Carlo C. Jaeger
    741,-

    Presents a fundamental critique of the approaches to understanding and managing risk - the 'rational actor paradigm'. This title shows how risk studies must incorporate the competing interests, values, and rationalities of those involved and find a balance of trust and acceptable risk.

  • av USA) Slovic & Paul (University of Oregon
    561 - 2 561,-

    The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's concern about coping with the dangers of life. This title examines the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. It allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions.

  • - New Perspectives on Risk Perception
    av USA) Slovic & Paul (University of Oregon
    741 - 1 959,-

    Explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. This book highlights perspectives on risk arising from cultural worldviews and concerns about specific hazards pertaining to blood transfusion, biotechnology, prescription drugs, smoking, terrorism, and nanotechnology.

  • - Integrating Location Economics and Risk Analysis to Protect Environmental Health and Investments
    av Michael R Greenberg
    2 141,-

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    2 155,-

    This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of theoretical and clinical medical ethics, medical sociology, risk communication and ethics of risk.

  • - Protecting health and the environment
    av Michael R. Greenberg
    687 - 2 382,-

  • - Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning
     
    2 571,-

    From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities.

  • av Catherine Althaus
    786 - 1 945,-

    Opens with an outline of the historical and linguistic origins of risk, the various disciplinary understandings of risk, the 'risk society' concept, and how risk has come to be so prominent in the context of environmental disaster and terrorism.

  • - A New Framework for Risk Management
     
    2 377,-

    In the UK, Tolerability of Risk has been developed into a sophisticated framework, particularly within the health and safety sectors. This title provides a historical and topical perspective on the alternative concept of 'Tolerability of Risk' and its concrete regulatory applications.

  • - Volume II: Risk Analysis, Corporations and the Globalization of Risk
    av Jeanne X. Kasperson & Roger E. Kasperson
    711 - 2 636,-

    We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. This book focuses on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally.

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    461,-

    Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries. In this title, distinguished international researchers make a significant contribution to the understanding and management of transboundary environmental risks. It provides evidence and analysis for those working on international environmental issues and all aspects of risk management.

  • - From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities
    av Pedro Jacobi, Marianne Kjellen, Gordon McGranahan, m.fl.
    631,-

    Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. This book examines the changing nature of urban environmental risks, the rules governing the distribution of such risks and their differential impact, how the risks arise and who is responsible.

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