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Risk (Hardcover, New)
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Risk (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences
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Can we better predict or mitigate the consequences of natural
disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes? Can we reduce the
number of oil spills? And what should be done to clean up the mess
when something does goes wrong? Why are people concerned about
nuclear plants, but so reckless when they go skiing, or when they
drive their motor cars? And how can we ensure that experts and
ordinary citizens exchange meaningful information about hazards?
Over the past fifty years or so, eminent scholars from the decision
sciences, geography, sociology, anthropology, and many other
fields, have offered useful pointers towards finding an answer to
these and other crucial questions. Their prolific and converging
efforts have established Risk Analysis as a vivid new discipline, a
discipline which this new Routledge collection enables users to
discover-or to understand better. The collection conveys essential
lessons about how risks can be better assessed. Sophisticated
models about the probability and magnitude of harms have been
developed and tested in a variety of fields, for example, by
engineers trying to build safer plants, or by toxicologists trying
to understand the pathways of pollutants. The materials gathered
here also help us to understand how powerful perception drivers
shape our views of different risks and, as a consequence, how risk
communication may be best conducted. Risk also brings together and
makes sense of a body of knowledge that has allowed the development
of specific methods to join together these two crucial elements
into a coherent management 'whole'.
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