Accident And Design (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Debates On Risk Management
Redaktion: Hood, C.; Jones, D. K. C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of different theoretical, methodological and practical approaches towards the management of risk. Seven dimensions of the debate are identified, and the case for each position is put forward, the whole discussion being set in context and perspective. This volume attempts to identify and juxtapose the contested doctrines and underlying assumptions in the field of risk management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135362614
• Artikelnr.: 47890734

Autorenporträt

C. Hood, D. K. C. Jones

Inhaltsangabe

Anticipation in risk management - a stich in time...? Anticipation versus reliance
Christopher Hood
David Jones; Anticipating the risk posed by natural perils
David Jones; Hazard engineering
David Blockley; Resilience
flexibility and diversity in managing the risks of technologies
David Collingridge. Absolution
liability and blame - pointing the finger: Absolutism versus blame
Christopher Hood
david Jones; Criminal law
blame and risk: the case of corporate manslaughter
Celia Wells; The problem of blame
Tom Horlick-Jones; Blame
punishment and risk management
A. Neil Johnston. Quantitative risk assessment and risk management - faith in figures: The extent to which statistics are signs from God
Christopher Hood
David Jones; Quantitative risk assessment and decisions about risk: an essential input into the decision process
A.V. Cohen; Limits to the mathematical modelling of disasters
B. Toft. Designing institutions - a house of cards? The feasibility of institutional design in risk management
Christopher Hood
David Jones; Risk and disaster: the role of communications breakdown in plane crashes and business failure
David Weir; Criteria for the design of hazard mitigation instructions
Edmund Penning-Rowsell. Counting the cost: Risk reduction
but at what price? Christopher Hood
David Jones; Is safety a by-product of quality management
Tom Horlick-Jones; Risk management: an economist's approach
Sir Christopher Foster. Participation in risk management decisions: To what extent is risk management best left to experts
Christopher Hood
David Jones; technocracy
democracy
secrecy and error
Nick Pidgeon; Risk management
post-normal science and extended peer communities
Silvio O. Funtowicz
Jerome R. Ravetz; Exploring the role of civic science in risk management
Timothy O'Riordan. The regulatory target - crying over spilt milk: Should regulation be targeted on physical products or institutional processes
Christopher Hood
David Jones; Risk and emerging technology: the case of process-based regulation of biotechnology in Europe
Simon Shohet. Conclusion - learning from your desk lamp: Homeostatic versus collaborationist approaches to risk management
Christopher Hood
David Jones; When extremes meet: sprat versus shark in public risk management
Christopher Hood.