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1. The Spatial Dimension of Risk

   How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

   Edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   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...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Risk Analysis and Human Behavior

   By Baruch Fischhoff

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   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...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
3. Judgment and Decision Making

   By Baruch Fischhoff

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   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...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Public Safety and Risk Assessment

   Improving Decision Making

   By David J. Ball, Laurence Ball-King

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   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...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. Foresight in Action

   Developing Policy-Oriented Scenarios

   Edited by Marjolein van Asselt, Susan van 't Klooster, Philip van Notten, Livia A. Smits

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures. Research has indicated, however, that the reality of how professionals go about employing scenarios is often starkly...

   Published September 28th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Feeling of Risk

   New Perspectives on Risk Perception

   By Paul Slovic

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   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...

   Published September 2nd 2010 by Routledge
7. Trust in Risk Management

   Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind

   By Timothy C. Earle

   Edited by Michael Siegrist, Heinz Gutscher

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   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...

   Published June 15th 2010 by Routledge
8. Transboundary Risk Governance

   By Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd, Ylva Uggla

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   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...

   Published October 22nd 2009 by Routledge
9. Uncertainty and Risk

   Multidisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Gabriele Bammer, Michael Smithson

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   ?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...

   Published July 15th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Tolerability of Risk

    A New Framework for Risk Management

    Edited by Frederic Bouder, David Slavin, Ragnar E. Lofstedt

    Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

    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...

    Published May 25th 2009 by Routledge