| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1 Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current dilemmas; Part II: Threat, vulnerabilities and insecurities; 2 Risk society and financial risk; 3 Before the sky falls down: a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of internet addresses; 4 Changing attitudes to risk? Managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain; 5 Public perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK; 6 Colonised by risk the emergence of academic risks in British higher education |
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Part III: Social, organisational and regulatory sources of resilience and security7 Regulating resilience? Regulatory work in high-risk arenas; 8 Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects: the Olympic Games; 9 Creating space for engagement? Lay membership in contemporary risk governance; 10 Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research': the case of gene therapy; 11 Preparing for future crises:less |
| Summary |
A multi-disciplinary book that focuses on how social, organisational and policy systems manage the anticipation of risks in contemporary societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Risk management.
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Risk management -- Social aspects
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Risk Management
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risk management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management.
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Risk management.
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Risk management -- Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511907906 |
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0511907907 |
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9780511909412 |
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0511909411 |
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9780511906626 |
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0511906625 |
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