Provides guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. This title offers a survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can participate in inclusive risk governance.
Helps you learn about the discipline of emergency management. Featuring a presentation of disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery and communications, this title introduces various methods for empowering disaster survivors, including the use of social networking technologies and community-based initiatives.
Risk is everywhere - from genetically modified crops, dams, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, inflation, and robbery. This Very Short Introduction examines what science has learned about how people deal with risks, what we can learn through decision theory, and how we can evaluate risk in our own lives.
Explores issues such as the measurement of risk in its social context, the idea that the mass media or the political opposition always exaggerate risk, and the notion that the advice of the expert is the best we can get as far as risks are concerned.
Enables you to understand the fundamental theories surrounding risk control, design, and implementation by reviewing topics such as cost/benefit analysis, crime prediction, response planning, and business impact analysis. This book gives insights into universal principles that can be adapted to specific situations and threats.
The risk discipline is young and there are a number of ideas, perspectives and conceptions of risk out there. A number of such common conceptions of risk are examined in the book, related to the risk concept, risk assessments, uncertainty analyses, risk perception, the precautionary principle, risk management and decision making under uncertainty.
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. This book focuses on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally.
The contributors cover the new risks associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. They also demonstrate why the main arguments covered before -- centred on environmental, health and personal risk -- reverberate throughout social theory.
Sets out a practical approach to how the risk management process can deliver value through effective facilitation. This book is illustrated with practical examples from the authors' experience and their findings from interviews and surveys to help you get the best from your groups when they're working together, both face-to-face and virtually.
Explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. This book highlights perspectives on risk arising from cultural worldviews and concerns about specific hazards pertaining to blood transfusion, biotechnology, prescription drugs, smoking, terrorism, and nanotechnology.
Risk management combines considerable quantitative skills with practical and intuitive competencies. Presenting both mathematical aspects and practical skills, this book introduces the foundations of risk management and shows how these concepts are used to create practical risk management systems.