Anticipating risks and organizing risk regulation
By: edited by Bridget Hutter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521193092
Subjects: Social aspects; Risk management
Description: 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 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 recent 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half-title; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Dedication; title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Part I: Introduction; title: 1 Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current dilemmas; title: Anticipating risk: risk as anticipation; title: New threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities; title: Anticipating risk: social, organisational and regulatory actions and reactions; title: Regulation and anticipation; title: Conclusion; title: Part II: Threat, vulnerabilities and insecurities; title: 2 Risk society and financial risk; title: Introduction; title: Financial innovation: derivatives and securitisations; title: Financial markets crisis since the middle of 2007; title: Northern Rock, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and other casualties; title: The imperfect science of risk management; title: The imperfect science of regulation; title: Conclusion; title: 3 Before the sky falls down: a 8216;constitutional dialogue over the depletion of internet addresses; title: Introduction:160;the definition of risks as contested terrain; title: Managing scarcity:160;the internet address space and its regulatory framework; title: Framing risks and mobilising action: black versus open markets; title: The risk of changing something; title: The risk of 8216;doing it badly:160;the design of an address market; title: Anticipating risks in light of competing definitions of the public good; title: 4 Changing attitudes to risk? Managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain; title: 5 Public perceptions of risk and 8216;compensation culture in the UK; title: Interwoven concerns about public attitudes to risk and compensation; title: The compensation culture debate; title: How has the debate flourished? Vested interests and the appeal of 8216;tort tales; title: What affects propensity to sue and decisions based on perceptions of risk?; title: The place of 8216;culture explanations; title: Conclusion; title: 6 Colonised by risk 8211; the emergence of academic risks in British higher education; title: Introduction; title: Theorising risk colonisation; title: Three hypotheses about the colonisation of academia by risk; title: The emergence of academic risks; title: Conceptualising risk management; title: In search of academic risks; title: The consolidation of academic risk management; title: Conclusion; title: Part III: Social, organisational and regulatory sources of resilience and security; title: 7 Regulating resilience? Regulatory work in high-risk arenas; title: The structure of risk regulation; title: High-risk arenas and resilience; title: Regulatory work; title: Formalising organisational practice; title: Supervising organisational practice; title: Developing organisational practice; title: Regulating for resilience; title: Conclusion; title: 8 Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects: the Olympic Games; title: Mega-projects, critical infrastructures and resilience; title: Organising critical infrastructures; title: Organising critical infrastructure for London 2012; title: Conclusion; title: 9 Creating space for engagement? Lay membership in contemporary risk governance; title: Lay membership 8211; creating new regulatory space?; title: Lay roles I:160;lay members and the public; title: Lay roles II:160;lay members as advisors; title: Tensions between 8216;lay and 8216;expert knowledge; title: Conclusion; title: 10 Bioethics and the risk regulation of 8216;frontier research: the case of gene therapy; title: Risk and regulation of a 8216;frontier science; title: 8216;Gene therapy:160;crises and responses; title: Consent and the conventional bioethical frame; title: T$2.