Risk management and society /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001. |
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| Description: | xv, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in natural and technological hazards research ; v. 16 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4505744 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Of course it's safe, trust me! Conceptualising issues of risk management within the 'Risk Society'
- A case study in risk management: the UK pumped storage business
- Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management: The Need for a paradigm shift?
- Incentives for loss prevention instead of disaster management by the state in the case of catastrophic risks
- History repeating itself? Expertise, barriers to learning and the precautionary principle
- The social construction and deconstruction of risk
- Opening Pandora's box: Stress at work and its implications for emergency management
- Questions of risk and regulation: Hegemony, governance and the US chemical industry
- Injury, death and the deregulation fetish: The politics of occupational safety regulation in UK manufacturing industries
- Deregulation and BSE
- The political economy of risk: Piper Alpha and the British offshore oil industry
- Learning the lessons of Piper Alpha? Offshore workers' perceptions of changing levels of risk
- Changing perceptions of risk: The Implications for Management
- Index