The Earthscan reader on risk
By: edited by Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm.
Contributors: Löfstedt, Ragnar.; Boholm, Åsa.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844076864; 9781844076871
Subjects: Risk management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The study of risk in the 21st century / Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm; title: The policy implications of differing concepts of risk / Judith A. Bradbury; title: A philosophical perspective on risk / Sven Ove Hansson; title: Uncertain times : the notion of risk and the development of modernity / Gerda Reith; title: Gender, race and perceived risk : the white male effect / Melissa L. Finucane ... [et al.]; title: How safe is safe enough? a psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits / Baruch Fischhoff ... [et al.]; title: Risk as feelings / George F. Loewenstein ... [et al.].