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 Tolerability of Risk: A New Framework for Risk Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederic Bouder, David Slavin, Ragnar E. Lofstedt
May 26, 2009
There is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'. As a result, academics, government officials and industry leaders are calling for new approaches and fresh ideas. This book provides a historical and ...
Risk Management in Post-Trust Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ragnar E. Lofstedt
December 16, 2008
�A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st century� Anna Jung, Director General, European Food Information Council �Professor Ragnar L�fstedt has once again produced a most interesting book on risk management and trust, ...
Calculating Political Risk
1st Edition
By Catherine Althaus
November 18, 2008
Calculating Political Risk is rich and illuminating, and much more than a political science treatise. Althaus draws on diverse literature, extensive interviews and intriguing case studies to offer interdisciplinary, practical and nuanced insight. This book provides new perspectives and more precise...
Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
1st Edition
By Ortwin Renn
May 30, 2008
'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis...
Hazards Vulnerability and Environmental Justice
1st Edition
By Susan L. Cutter
June 01, 2006
From Hurricane Katrina and the south Asian tsunami to human-induced atrocities, terrorist attacks and the looming effects of climate change, the world is assailed by both natural and unnatural hazards and disasters. These expose not only human vulnerability - particularly that of the poorest, who ...
Social Contours of Risk: Two volume Set
1st Edition
By Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson
April 01, 2005
We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes 1 and 2, two of the world's leading and most ...
Social Contours of Risk: Volume I: Publics, Risk Communication and the Social
1st Edition
By Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson
April 01, 2005
We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most ...
The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
By Gordon McGranahan, Jacob Songsor, Charles Surjadi, Marianne Kjellen, Pedro Jacobi
March 01, 2001
Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up this emerging agenda and analyses the key issues in a refreshingly simple yet sophisticated style. Taking a comparative ...
Transboundary Risk Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Ragnar E. Lofstedt, Gunnar Sjostedt
March 01, 2001
Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries. In this volume, distinguished international researchers make a significant contribution to the understanding and management of transboundary environmental risks. The transboundary risk topics addressed highlight the key political, ...
Risk, Media and Stigma: Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology
1st Edition
By Paul Slovic, James Flynn, Howard Kunreuther
February 01, 2001
The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the pervasive power of the media, public concern about health and ecological risks can have enormous ...
Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action
1st Edition
By Carlo C. Jaeger, Thomas Webler, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn
January 01, 2001
Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty. In this definitive volume, four of the world's ...
The Perception of Risk
1st Edition
By Paul Slovic
April 01, 2000
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views ...