Risk Governance
Subtitle: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World (Earthscan Risk and Society Series)
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.; Earthscan
Published: March 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781844072927
Subjects: Risk assessment; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Disaster Relief & Rescue Operations; Disasters & Disaster Relief; Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / General; Political Freedom & Security - General; Social Psychology; Risk; Risk management; Risk perception; Sociological aspects
Description: "This book, for the first time, brings together and updates the work of renowned risk theorist and researcher Ortwin Renn, integrating the major disciplinary concepts of risk in the social, engineering and natural sciences. The book opens with the context of risk handling before flowing through the core topics of assessment, evaluation, perception, management and communication, culminating in a look at the transition from risk management to risk governance and a glimpse of a new understanding of risk in (post)modern societies."--BOOK JACKET.