'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk
analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the
demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk
research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage
risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature.
The skill with which he builds practical recommendations from solid
science is unprecedented.'Thomas Dietz, Director, Environmental
Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, USA 'A
masterpiece of new knowledge and wisdom with illustrative examples
of tested applications to realworld cases. The book is
recommendable also to interested students in different disciplines
as a timely textbook on 'risk beyond risk'.'Norio Okada, Full
Professor and Director at the Disaster Prevention Research
Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Japan 'There are classic
environmental works such as The Tragedy of the Commons by Hardin,
Risk Society by Beck, The Theory of Communicative Action by
Habermas, and the seminal volumes by Ostrom on governing the
commons. Renn's book fits right into this series of important
milestones of environmental studies.'Jochen Jaeger, Professor at
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 'Risk Governance provides a
valuable survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how
scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can
participate in inclusive risk governance.'Jobst Conrad, Senior
Scientist, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany 'Renn
offers a remarkably fair-minded and systematic approach to bringing
together the diverse fields that have something to say about
'risk'. Risk Governance moves us along the path from the noisy,
formative stage of thinking about risk to one with a stronger
empirical, theoretical, and analytical foundation.'Baruch
Fischhoff, PhD, Howard Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, USA 'I cannot describe how impressed I am
at the breadth and coherence of Renn's career's work! Written with
remarkable clarity and minimal technical jargon... [this] should be
required reading in risk courses!' John Graham, former director of
the Harvard Risk Center and former deputy director of the Office of
Budget and Management of the Unites States Administration This
book, for the first time, brings together and updates the
groundbreaking 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 at a new understanding of risk in
(post)modern societies.
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