Uncertainty and risk
Subtitle: multidisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson.
Contributors: Bammer, Gabriele.; Smithson, Michael.
Series: Earthscan risk in society series; Earthscan risk and society series
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781844074747
Subjects: Uncertainty; Risk
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Introduction / Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson; title: The many faces and masks of uncertainty / Michael Smithson; title: Adopting orphans : uncertainty and other neglected aspects of complex problems / Gabriele Bammer; title: More than a cabinet of curiosities : disciplinary and practice perspectives on uncertainty; title: When action can't wait : investigating infectious disease outbreaks / Aileen J. Plant; title: Uncertainty and religion : ten provisional theses / Stephen Pickard; title: Uncertainty in the physical sciences : how big? how small? is it actually there at all? / Stephen J. Buckman; title: Statistics : an essential tool for model citizens / Robyn G. Attewell; title: A philosopher's guide to probability / Alan Hájek; title: Musical improvisation, creativity and uncertainty / John Mackey; title: Uncertainty as a creative force in visual art / Sasha Grishin; title: Historians and disputes over uncertainty / Ann Curthoys; title: Approaches to uncertain futures / Kate Delaney; title: Embracing social uncertainties with complex systems science / Pascal Perez; title: Heroin : injected with uncertainty / Alison Ritter; title: Political practice : uncertainty, ethics and outcomes / Michael Moore; title: Smoke and mirrors : managing uncertainty in the public health sector / Liz Furler; title: Economists and uncertainty / John Quiggin; title: Psychology's ambivalent view of uncertainty / Michael Smithson; title: Uncertainty in decision-making : intelligence as a solution / Steve Longford; title: Emergency management thrives on uncertainty / John Handmer; title: Uncertainty, complexity and environment / Stephen Dovers ... [et al.]; title: Uncertainty, terrorism and law enforcement / Michael McFadden, Rod Lyon and Roy Pinsker; title: Certainty as illusion : the nature and purpose of uncertainty in the law / Judith S. Jones; title: Unifying diversity; title: The nature of uncertainty / Gabriele Bammer, Michael Smithson and the Goolabri Group; title: Uncertainty metaphors, motives and morals / Michael Smithson, Gabriele Bammer and the Goolabri Group; title: Coping and managing under uncertainty / Michael Smithson, Gabriele Bammer and the Goolabri Group; title: Implications for risk assessment and management; title: Coping with deep uncertainty : challenges for environmental assessment and decision-making / Roger E. Kasperson; title: Risk, uncertainty and social controversy : from risk perception and communication to public engagement / Nick Pidgeon.