1st Edition
COVID-19 Confronting a New World Risk
This comprehensive book looks at COVID-19, along with other recent infectious disease outbreaks, with the broad aim of providing constructive lessons and critical reflections from across a wide range of perspectives and disciplinary interests within the risk analysis field.
The chapters in this edited volume probe the roles of risk communication, risk perception, and risk science in helping to manage the ever-growing pandemic that was declared a public health emergency of international concern in the beginning of 2020. A few chapters in the book also include relevant content discussing past disease outbreaks, such as Zika, Ebola and MERS-CoV. This book distils past and present knowledge, appraises current responses, introduces new ideas and data, and offers key recommendations, which will help illuminate different aspects of the global health crisis. It also explores how different constructive insights offered from a ‘risk perspective’ might inform decisions on how best to proceed in response as the pandemic continues.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Risk Research.
Introduction – COVID- 19: confronting a new world risk
Jamie K. Wardman and Ragnar E. Löfstedt
1. COVID- 19: reflections on trust, tradeoffs, and preparedness
Dominic H. P. Balog- Way and Katherine A. McComas
2. The COVID- 19 pandemic: how can risk science help?
Terje Aven and Frederic Bouder
3. Does the COVID- 19 pandemic refute probability neglect?
Arkadiusz Sieroń
4. COVID- 19 infection and death rates: the need to incorporate causal explanations for the data and avoid bias in testing
Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil, Magda Osman and Scott McLachlan
5. Bayesian network analysis of Covid- 19 data reveals higher infection prevalence rates and lower fatality rates than widely reported
Martin Neil, Norman E. Fenton, Magda Osman and Scott McLachlan
6. Resilience in the face of uncertainty: early lessons from the COVID- 19 pandemic
C. Bryce, P. Ring, S. Ashby and Jamie K. Wardman
7. Backing up emergency teams in healthcare and law enforcement organizations: strategies to socialize newcomers in the time of COVID- 19
Paula Ungureanu and Fabiola Bertolotti
8. Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
Ann Bostrom, Gisela Böhm, Robert E. O’Connor, Daniel Hanss, Otto Bodi- Fernandez and Pradipta Halder
9. Predictors of expressing and receiving information on social networking sites during MERS- CoV outbreak in South Korea
Woohyun Yoo and Doo- Hun Choi
10. Public health emergency response coordination: putting the plan into practice
Yushim Kim, Minyoung Ku and Seong Soo Oh
11. Outbreak! Socio- cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean MERS- CoV epidemic
Jisoo Ahn, Lee Ann Kahlor and Ghee- Young Noh
12. Risk communication in a double public health crisis: the case of Ebola and cholera in Ghana
Esi E. Thompson
13. From information to intervention: connecting risk communication to individual health behavior and community- level health interventions during the 2016 Zika outbreak
Rachael Piltch- Loeb and David Abramson
14. Risk perceptions of COVID- 19 around the world
Sarah Dryhurst, Claudia R. Schneider, John Kerr, Alexandra L. J. Freeman, Gabriel Recchia, Anne Marthe van der Bles, David Spiegelhalter and Sander van der Linden
15. Mismanagement of Covid- 19: lessons learned from Italy
Maria Laura Ruiu
16. The paradox of trust: perceived risk and public compliance during the COVID- 19 pandemic in Singapore
Catherine Mei Ling Wong and Olivia Jensen
17. Managing the Covid- 19 pandemic through individual responsibility: the consequences of a world risk society and enhanced ethopolitics
Katarina Giritli Nygren and Anna Olofsson
18. Be alarmed. Some reflections about the COVID- 19 risk communication in Germany
Peter M. Wiedemann and Wolfgang Dorl
19. Did the world overlook the media’s early warning of COVID- 19?
King- wa Fu and Yuner Zhu
20. Fact- checking as risk communication: the multi- layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID- 19
Nicole M. Krause, Isabelle Freiling, Becca Beets and Dominique Brossard
21. Pandemic democracy: elections and COVID- 19
Todd Landman and Luca Di Gennaro Splendore
22. Survival at the expense of the weakest? Managing modern slavery risks in supply chains during COVID- 19
Alexander Trautrims, Martin C. Schleper, M. Selim Cakir and Stefan Gold
23. COVID- 19 risk governance: drivers, responses and lessons to be learned
Aengus Collins, Marie- Valentine Florin and Ortwin Renn
24. ‘A monstrous threat’: how a state of exception turns into a ‘new normal’
Jens O. Zinn
25. Recalibrating pandemic risk leadership: thirteen crisis ready strategies for COVID- 19
Jamie K. Wardman
Biography
Jamie Wardman is Assistant Professor of Risk Management at Nottingham University Business School, UK. His research is primarily focussed on the sociology of risk and the theory and practice of risk communication as this relates to such issues as organisational operations, science and technology controversies, emergency preparedness, crisis response, public policy, and health and safety. He is particularly interested in how sociocultural perspectives on risk and its representation can help inform risk management policy design, operations and evaluation.
Ragnar E. Löfstedt is Professor of Risk Management and the Director of King’s Centre for Risk Management, UK, where he teaches and conducts research on risk communication and management. Ragnar has conducted research in risk communication and management in such areas as renewable energy policy, transboundary environmental issues (acid rain and nuclear power), health and safety, telecommunications, biosafety, pharmaceuticals, and the siting of the building of incinerators, fuel policy, nuclear waste installations and railways.
