A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk

Gaspar Mairal

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of ... Lees meer

Facility Siting

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involv... Lees meer

Transboundary Risk Management

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries. In this volume, distinguished international researchers make a significant contribution... Lees meer

Siting Noxious Facilities

Michael R Greenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It propo... Lees meer

Risk Governance

Ortwin Renn

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• 'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point f... Lees meer

Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, resea... Lees meer

Foresight in Action

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are a... Lees meer

Trust in Cooperative Risk Management

Timothy C Earle

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In th... Lees meer

Effective Risk Communication

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• 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... Lees meer

The Spatial Dimension of Risk

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• Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in ho... Lees meer

Public Safety and Risk Assessment

David J Ball, Laurence Ball-King

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new ... Lees meer

Anthropology and Risk

Asa Boholm

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and managem... Lees meer

Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, resea... Lees meer

The Feeling of Risk

Paul Slovic

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception... Lees meer

Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public understa... Lees meer

Trust in Risk Management

Timothy C Earle

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In th... Lees meer

Effective Risk Communication

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• 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... Lees meer

The Citizens at Risk

Gordon McGranahan, Jacob Songsor, Charles Surjadi

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• Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The... Lees meer

The Feeling of Risk

Paul Slovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception... Lees meer

Social Contours of Risk

Roger E Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other source... Lees meer

Risk Management in Post-Trust Societies

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• �A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st century� Anna Jung, Director General... Lees meer

Uncertainty and Risk

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• �This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways... Lees meer

Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society

Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings hav... Lees meer

Public Safety and Risk Assessment

David J Ball, Laurence Ball-King

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Risk in Society
• This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new ... Lees meer