Ebook: 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.

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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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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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design for Safety....Pages 1-36
Epistemic Risk: The Significance of Knowing What One Does Not Know....Pages 37-62
Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge....Pages 63-78
Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk....Pages 79-91
Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives....Pages 93-123
The Psychology of Risk Characterization....Pages 125-139
Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust....Pages 141-181
Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management....Pages 183-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-255

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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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design for Safety....Pages 1-36
Epistemic Risk: The Significance of Knowing What One Does Not Know....Pages 37-62
Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge....Pages 63-78
Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk....Pages 79-91
Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives....Pages 93-123
The Psychology of Risk Characterization....Pages 125-139
Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust....Pages 141-181
Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management....Pages 183-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-255
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