Future Risks and Risk Management

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.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Brehmer (Editor), B Brehmer (Editor), B. Brehmer (Editor), Berndt Brehmer (Editor), E Sahlin (Editor), E Sahlin (Editor), N. E. Sahlin (Editor), N.E. Sahlin (Editor), Nils-Eric Sahlin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048144549
• ISBN: 978-90-481-4454-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 14 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 256 p.
• Series: Risk, Governance and Society; Risk, Governance and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works