Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson

Social Contours of Risk (eBook, ePUB)

Volume I: Publics, Risk Communication and the Social

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume I collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities, corporations and the larger society. It analyses the problems of lack of transparency and trust, and explores how even minor effects can be amplified and distorted through media and social responses, preventing effective management. The final section investigates the difficult ethical issues raised by the unequal distribution of risk depending on factors such as wealth, location and genetic inheritance - with examples from worker and public protection, facility-siting conflicts, transporting hazardous waste and widespread impacts such as climate change. Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136557279
• Artikelnr.: 38273999

Autorenporträt

Jeanne X Kasperson was Research Associate Professor and Research Librarian and Roger E Kasperson is Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist also at Clark University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I
PART 1 - COMMUNICATING RISK AND INVOLVING PUBLICS
Six Propositions on Public Participation and Their Relevance for Risk Communication
Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks
Evaluating Risk Communication
Considerations and Principles for Risk Communication for Industrial Accidents
Risk and the Stakeholder Express
PART 2 THE SOCIAL AMPLIFICATION OF RISK
The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework
Hidden Hazards
Media Risk Signals and the Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, 1985-1989
Stigma and the Social Amplification of Risk: Towards a Framework of Analysis
Risk, Trust and Democratic Theory
The Social Amplification of Risk: Assessing 15 Years of Research and Theory
PART 3 RISK AND ETHICS
Responding to the Double Standard of Worker/Public Protection
Developmental and Geographical Equity in Global Environmental Change: A Framework for Analysis
Redirecting the US High-Level Radioactive Waste Programme
Siting Hazardous Facilities: Searching for Effective Institutions and Processes
Climate Change, Vulnerability and Social Justice
Volume II
PART 1 RISK AND SOCIETY: FRAMING THE ISSUES
Acceptability of Human Risk
Societal Response to Hazards and Major Hazard Events: Comparing Natural and Technological Hazards
Large-scale Nuclear Risk Analysis: Its Impacts and Future
PART 2 CORPORATIONS AND RISK
Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research
Avoiding Future Bhopals
Emergency Planning for Industrial Crises: An Overview
Corporate Culture and Technology Transfer
Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal
PART 3 THE GLOBALIZATION OF RISK
Hazards in Developing Countries: Cause for Global Concern
Priorities in Profile: Managing Risks in Developing Countries
Risk and Criticality: Trajectories of Regional Environmental
(Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, Massachusetts, US
Border Crossings
Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change