Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-19309-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organizations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This book shows how we can organize our social, organizational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. Contributors from a range of disciplines - including finance, history, law, management, political science, social psychology, sociology and disaster studies - consider threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities alongside social and organizational sources of resilience and security. These issues are introduced and discussed through a fascinating and diverse set of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy and the recent financial crisis. This is an important book for academics and policy makers who wish to understand the dilemmas generated in the anticipation and management of risks.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of figures
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List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Introduction: 1. Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current dilemmas Bridget M. Hutter
Part II. Threat, Vulnerabilities and Insecurities: 2. Risk society and financial risk Clive Briault
3. Before the sky falls down: a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of internet addresses Jeanette Hofmann
4. Changing attitudes to risk? Managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain Peter Bartrip
5. Public perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK Sally Lloyd-Bostock
6. Colonised by risk. The emergence of academic risks in British higher education Michael Huber
Part III. Social, Organisational and Regulatory Sources of Resilience and Security: 7. Regulating resilience? Regulatory work in high-risk arenas Carl Macrae
8. Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects: the Olympic Games Will Jennings and Martin Lodge
9. Creating space for engagement? Lay membership in contemporary risk governance Alan Irwin and Kevin Jones
10. Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research': the case of gene therapy Javier Lezaun
11. Preparing for future crises: lessons from research Arjen Boin
12. Conclusion: important themes and future research directions Bridget M. Hutter
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Index.
