Kathleen Tierney

The Social Roots of Risk

Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself-that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.

Produktdetails

• High Reliability and Crisis Management
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780804791397
• ISBN-10: 0804791392
• Artikelnr.: 40449955

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Tierney is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Director of its Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Risking More, Losing More: Thinking About Risk and Resilience
2. Looking Back: The Evolution of How We Talk About Risk
3. A Different Perspective: The Social Production of Risk
4. Culture and the Production of Risk
5. Organizations, Institutions, and the Production of Risk
6. Communities and Societies at Risk
7. Defining Resilience in Relation to Risk
8. Adaptive Resilience in the Face of Disasters
9. Looking Ahead: A Move Toward Safety, or More of the Same?