Earthscan Risk in Society
About the Book Series
The Earthscan Risk in Society series publishes high quality research, teaching, practical and policy- related books on topics that address risk analysis, risk assessment, risk perception, risk management, uncertainty and decision-making in society. Professor Ragnar Lofstedt is the series editor and the series has published highly influential authors in the field of risk, including Ortwin Renn, Baruch Fischhoff and Paul Slovic.
The Spatial Dimension of Risk: How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By Detlef Muller-Mahn
May 21, 2015
Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and ...
Anthropology and Risk
1st Edition
By Asa Boholm
April 28, 2015
Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in...
The Ethics of Technological Risk
1st Edition
Edited
By Lotte Asveld, Sabine Roeser
September 11, 2014
'A comprehensive and important collection that includes essays by some of the leading figures in the field. ...Essential reading for anyone interested in risk assessment.' Professor Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame 'The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together a ...
Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Siegrist, Timothy C. Earle, Heinz Gutscher
April 10, 2014
Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world?s leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. Drawing on a wide ...
Transboundary Risk Governance
1st Edition
By Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd, Ylva Uggla
December 11, 2013
Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a ...
Effective Risk Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Arvai, Louie Rivers III
October 03, 2013
There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws ...
Judgment and Decision Making
1st Edition
By Baruch Fischhoff
February 10, 2012
Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics, decision theory, management science). It employs both empirical methods, to study how decisions are ...
Risk Analysis and Human Behavior
1st Edition
By Baruch Fischhoff
February 08, 2012
The articles collected here are foundational contributions to integrating behavioural research and risk analysis. They include seminal articles on three essential challenges. One is ensuring effective two-way communication between technical experts and the lay public, so that risk analyses address ...
Public Safety and Risk Assessment: Improving Decision Making
1st Edition
By David J. Ball, Laurence Ball-King
November 09, 2011
This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon. Over the past decade health and safety has become a major issue of public interest. There are countless stories of health and safety ...
The Feeling of Risk: New Perspectives on Risk Perception
1st Edition
By Paul Slovic
September 03, 2010
The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century. In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as ...
Trust in Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Siegrist, Timothy C. Earle, Heinz Gutscher
June 16, 2010
Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. The authors draw on a ...
Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriele Bammer, Michael Smithson
July 16, 2009
�This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to explore your own way of perceiving your own ...