Future Risks and Risk Management: 9 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0792330579 ISBN 13: 9780792330578

Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1994

Riassunto

This text aims to provide a broad perspective on risk, including: basic philosophical issues concerned with values; psychological issues, such as the perception of risk; and the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors. The book is designed to be useful in a variety of contexts, both for teaching and as a source book for the risk professional needing to be informed of the broader issues in the field.

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Contenuti

Editors' Introduction. I. Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design of Safety; J. Rasmussen. II. Epistemic Risk: the Significance of Knowing What One Does not Know; N.-E. Sahlin, J. Persson. III. Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge; P. Slovic. IV. Psychological Research on Risk: Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk; B. Brehmer. V. Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives; J. Josefsson, G. Hermerén, N.-E. Sahlin. VI. The Psychology of Risk Characterization; B. Fischhoff. VII. Risk Communication: the Social Construction of Meaning and Trust; T.C. Earle, G. Cvetkovich. VIII. Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management; K.S. Shrader-Frechette.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792330579
• ISBN 13: 9780792330578
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 274
• Redattore: Sahlin N. E., Brehmer B.
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