Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hutter, Bridget M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organisations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This 2010 book shows how we can organise our social, organisational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. Contributors from a range of disciplines - including finance, history, law, management, political science, social psychology, sociology and disaster studies - consider threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities alongside social and organisational sources of resilience and security. These issues are introduced and discussed through a fascinating and diverse set of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy and the financial crisis. This is an important book for academics and policy makers who wish to understand the dilemmas generated in the anticipation and management of risks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511903878
• Artikelnr.: 38202595

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Part I.
Introduction: 1. Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current
dilemmas Bridget M. Hutter; Part II. Threat, Vulnerabilities and
Insecurities: 2. Risk society and financial risk Clive Briault; 3. Before
the sky falls down: a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of
internet addresses Jeanette Hofmann; 4. Changing attitudes to risk?
Managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain Peter Bartrip; 5. Public
perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK Sally
Lloyd-Bostock; 6. Colonised by risk. The emergence of academic risks in
British higher education Michael Huber; Part III. Social, Organisational
and Regulatory Sources of Resilience and Security: 7. Regulating
resilience? Regulatory work in high-risk arenas Carl Macrae; 8. Critical
infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects: the Olympic
Games Will Jennings and Martin Lodge; 9. Creating space for engagement? Lay
membership in contemporary risk governance Alan Irwin and Kevin Jones; 10.
Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research': the case of gene
therapy Javier Lezaun; 11. Preparing for future crises: lessons from
research Arjen Boin; 12. Conclusion: important themes and future research
directions Bridget M. Hutter; References; Index.