The Earthscan reader on risk, edited by Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm

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The Earthscan reader on risk, edited by Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm

Statement of responsibility

edited by Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm

Instantiates

• The Earthscan reader on risk

Publication

• London, Earthscan, 2009

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier.

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

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rdacontent.

Contents

The study of risk in the 21st century / Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm -- The policy implications of differing concepts of risk / Judith A. Bradbury -- A philosophical perspective on risk / Sven Ove Hansson -- Uncertain times : the notion of 'risk' and the development of modernity / Gerda Reith -- Gender, race and perceived risk : the 'white male' effect / Melissa L. Finucane ... [et al.] -- How safe is safe enough? : a psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits / Baruch Fischhoff ... [et al.] -- Risk as feelings / George F. Loewenstein ... [et al.]. -- Accounting for the social context of risk communication / Branden B. Johnson -- Risk communication and management in the 21st century / Ragnar E. Löfstedt -- Exploring the dimensionality of trust in risk regulation / Wouter Poortinga and Nick F. Pidgeon -- Salient value similarity, social trust and risk/benefit perception / Michael Siegrist, George Cvetkovich and Claudia Roth -- Risk-based decision analysis in support of precautionary policies / Michael L. DeKay ... [et al.] -- Risk regulation under pressure : problem-solving or blame-shifting? / Christopher HOod and Henry Rothstein -- What price safety? : the precautionary principle and its policy implications / Giandomenico Majone -- Uncertainty and environmental learning : reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm / Brian Wynne

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FIEb16923078

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

xiv, 320 pages

Isbn

9781844076864

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unmediated

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rdamedia.

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• n

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illustrations

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u279276

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• UkOxUb16885598
• (OCoLC)277086192