Gebundenes Buch

Social Theories of Risk

Beschreibung

The social science approach to risk has seen distinct paradigms developing in disciplines such as anthropology, economics, and psychology. This book traces the intellectual origins and histories of 12 of the established and emerging paradigms from the perspective of their principal proponents.

Autor

SHELDON KRIMSKY is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University. He has published widely on the social and ethical impacts of technology. His books include Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics (Praeger, 1991, Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as Social Process (Auburn House, 1988) and Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombitant DNA Controversy. DOMINIC GOLDING is a Fellow at the Center for Risk Management, Resources for the Future. He is the author of The Different Susceptibility of Workers to Occupational Hazards and contributed to The State of the Earth Atlas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9780275941680
• ISBN-10: 027594168X
• Artikelnr.: 25568314