Future Risks and Risk Management
Published on 28. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 256 pages
978-90-481-4454-9 (ISBN)
Description
Future Risks and Risk Management
provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors. No other volume adopts this broad perspective.
Future Risks and Risk Management
will be useful in a variety of contexts, both for teaching and as a source book for the risk professional needing to be informed of the broader issues in the field.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIV, 256 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-481-4454-9 (9789048144549)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-8388-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
B. Brehmer | N.E. Sahlin
Future Risks and Risk Management
Book
09/1994
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€160.49
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Content
I Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design for Safety.- II Epistemic Risk: The Significance of Knowing What One Does Not Know.- III Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge.- IV Psychological Research on Risk: Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk.- V Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives.- VI The Psychology of Risk Characterization.- VII Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust.- VIII Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management.- List of Contributors.