Risk Language And Power

Author : Jeffery T. Morris
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739170540

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Risk, Language, and Power by Jeffery T. Morris Pdf

Risk, Language, and Power explores discourse around the environmental risks of nanotechnology, making the case that the dominance in risk discourse of regulatory science is a limiting policy debate on environmental risks, and that specific initiatives should be undertaken to broaden debate not just on nanotechnology, but generally on the risks of new technologies. Morris argues that the treatment of environmental risk in public policy debates has failed for industrial chemicals, is failing for nanotechnology, and most certainly will fail for synthetic biology and other new technologies unless we change how we describe the impacts to people and other living things from the development and deployment of technology. However, Morris also contends that the nanotechnology case provides reason for optimism that risk can be given different, and better, treatment in environmental policy debates. Risk, Language, and Power proposes specific policy initiatives to advance a richer discourse around the environmental implications of emerging technologies. Morris believes that evidence of enriched environmental policy debates would be a decentering of language concerning risk by developing within discourse language and practice directed toward enriching the human and environmental condition.

Author : John Martyn Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317331964

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Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power by John Martyn Chamberlain Pdf

This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters written by professional practitioners and social scientists from the UK, South America, Australia and Europe, the book offers readers an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of how modern medicine has transformed our understanding of both ourselves and the world around us, but in so doing has arguably failed to fully recognize and account for, its unintended and negative effects. This is an essential read for social scientists, practitioners and policymakers who want to better understand how they can develop new ways of thinking about how modern medicine can promote social goods and enhance public health.

Author : Jeffery T. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Deliberative democracy
ISBN : 6613635944

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Risk, Language, and Power by Jeffery T. Morris Pdf

Risk, Language, and Power applies discourse analysis to public policy debates about nanotechnology, to explore how risk is used in language and practice to frame those debates. Morris argues that regulatory science by itself is inadequate to address risk concerns, and that public policy initiatives should be applied to broaden policy discourse around the environmental implications of emerging technologies.

Author : Alexander Eydeland,Krzysztof Wolyniec
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471455875

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Energy and Power Risk Management by Alexander Eydeland,Krzysztof Wolyniec Pdf

Praise for Energy and Power Risk Management "Energy and Power Risk Management identifies and addresses the keyissues in the development of the turbulent energy industry and thechallenges it poses to market players. An insightful andfar-reaching book written by two renowned professionals." -Helyette Geman, Professor of Finance University Paris Dauphine and ESSEC "The most up-to-date and comprehensive book on managing energyprice risk in the natural gas and power markets. An absoluteimperative for energy traders and energy risk managementprofessionals." -Vincent Kaminski, Managing Director Citadel Investment Group LLC "Eydeland and Wolyniec's work does an excellent job of outliningthe methods needed to measure and manage risk in the volatileenergy market." -Gerald G. Fleming, Vice President, Head of East Power Trading, TXUEnergy Trading "This book combines academic rigor with real-world practicality. Itis a must-read for anyone in energy risk management or assetvaluation." -Ron Erd, Senior Vice President American Electric Power

Author : Michael Power
Publisher : Demos
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781841801278

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The Risk Management of Everything by Michael Power Pdf

The report describes the development of a new risk management culture within professions, companies and governments. The obsession with managing risk is creating organisations which are not so much risk averse as ‘responsibility averse’. In medicine, doctors are practising ‘defensive medicine’ where opinions are heavily qualified with caveats and patients left to make big decisions. The report also refers to growing evidence that since Enron’s failure, major accountancy firms are declining to work with ‘high risk’ clients - the very ones that should be thoroughly audited. “When disclaimer paragraphs are longer than the professional opinions they follow, we know something has gone wrong,” says author Professor Michael Power, a director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics. “In the interests of transparency, small print should be made large and ruled out as a secondary risk management ploy. “The trends in professions such as medicine and auditing signal a withdrawal of individual judgement from the public. Minimal records are kept, staff are cautioned about the use of email, and normal correspondence is littered with disclaimers. The risk management of everything implies a society of ‘small print’.” Power sees the rise of the ‘risk management of everything’ as a related trend to the audit culture, which included the government’s now widely criticised love of targets as a policy tool. The Audit Explosion, Power’s previous Demos pamphlet, predicted that the overuse of audit leads to a focus on measurable outputs rather than real outcomes. “The most influential dimension of the audit explosion is the process by which [organisations] are made auditable and structured to conform to the need to be monitored,” Power wrote in 1994. Power’s new book argues that risk management is the ‘new audit’ and is having a similar distorting effect on the performance of professionals, companies and government.

Author : Jim McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1735617415

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The Power of Risk: How Intelligent Choices Will Make You More Successful--A Step-by-Step Guide by Jim McCormick Pdf

Opportunity knocked. Did you answer the door? When you hear the knock again, what will you do? We face risks every day, in business, relationships and daily life. How we navigate those risks--whether we call them opportunity, adventure, or danger determines our course in life. Many of us realize that much of life has passed us by as we were protecting ourselves from the very chances that could have delivered challenge, wealth, and accomplishment. By discovering your personal Risk Quotient, learning to analyze opportunities with a fresh perspective, and implementing strategies that will change the way you make decisions, The Power of Risk will open you up to a life filled with possibility, fulfillment, and freedom. Utilizing research, years of corporate leadership, and thousands of successful client experiences, Jim McCormick brings his risk revolution to readers everywhere. Guided self-assessments and insightful discussions guarantee a change in attitude, skill set, and, ultimately, personal success. The Risk Revolution has begun.

Author : Wenyuan Li
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780471631682

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Risk Assessment Of Power Systems by Wenyuan Li Pdf

"Risk Assessment of Power Systems closes the gap between risk theory and real-world application. As a leading authority in power system risk evaluation for more than fifteen years and the author of a considerable number of papers and more than fifty technical reports on power system risk and reliability evaluation, Wenyuan Li is uniquely qualified to present this material. Following the models and methods developed from the author's hands-on experience, readers learn how to evaluate power system risk in planning, design, operations, and maintenance activities to keep risk at targeted levels."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lewis Acrelius Froman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013592105

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Language and Power: Books I and II by Lewis Acrelius Froman Pdf

Author : Graeme Currie,Jackie Ford,Nancy Harding,Mark Learmonth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135212759

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Making Public Services Management Critical by Graeme Currie,Jackie Ford,Nancy Harding,Mark Learmonth Pdf

This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a novel way that is likely to resonate with academics, policy makers and practitioners engaged in the organization of public services delivery as it is from a perspective that challenges many received ideas in this field. Starting from the perspective of critical management studies, the contributors to this volume embed a critical perspective on policy orthodoxy around critical public services policy and management studies (CPPMS). In so doing the authors bring together previous disparate fields of public services policy and public services management, but more importantly, debate and present what ‘critical’ constitutes when applied to public services policy and management. This edited collection presents chapters from a broad range of public services domains including health, education, prisons, local and central government and deals with a range of contemporary issues facing public services managers are examined, including regulation of professions, risk management, user involvement, marketing and leadership.

Author : Mark Shiu-kee Shum,Peter Mickan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317210009

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Researching Chinese Language Education by Mark Shiu-kee Shum,Peter Mickan Pdf

The culmination of more than a decade of research, this compelling volume offers a fresh approach for applying functional linguistics to assess student performance, to inform the teaching and learning of Chinese and to design curriculum and teaching materials. Documenting authentic systemic functional linguistics (SFL) studies in researching and teaching Chinese as a first or second language, this research is set in the multilingual settings of Hong Kong and Australia. The experiences of SFL and genre teaching in English have been well demonstrated as valid, viable and practical in different contexts; however this volume covers the relatively new domain of research into the applications of SFL to the teaching of Chinese. Using SFL as the research framework, the authors cover three major areas in Chinese language education: effective pedagogies, curriculum and material design, and text analysis. Covering major local curriculum reforms and the rapid growth of International Baccalaureate programmes worldwide, this book will be of interest to linguists, language teachers and teacher educators and those involved in the teaching and learning of Chinese around the world.

Author : Rodney Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134078196

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Health and Risk Communication by Rodney Jones Pdf

Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication, assesses the benefits and limitations of the approaches used by different scholars in the field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating past research and charting new directions. Utilizing data from clinical interactions and everyday life, this book addresses a number of crucial questions including: How are the everyday actions we take around health constructed and constrained through discourse? What is the role of texts in influencing health behaviour, and how are these texts put together and interpreted by readers? How are actions and identities around health and risk negotiated in situated social interactions, and what are the factors that influence these negotiations? How will new technologies like genetic screening influence the way we communicate about health? How does communication about health and risk help create communities and institutions and reflect and reproduce broader ideologies and patterns of power and inequality within societies? Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective is essential reading for advanced students and researchers studying and working in this area.

Author : Peter J. Katzenstein,Lucia A. Seybert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108425179

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Protean Power by Peter J. Katzenstein,Lucia A. Seybert Pdf

Inquires into the role of the unexpected in world politics by examining the protean power effects of agile innovation and improvisation.

Author : Michael Power
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198753223

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Riskwork by Michael Power Pdf

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings - aviation, mental health, railway project management, energy, toy manufacture, financial services, chemicals regulation, and NGOs. Each chapter connects the analysis of risk studies with critical themes in organization studies more generally based on access to, and observations of, actors in the field. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artefacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork. In contrast to a preoccupation with disasters and accidents after the event, the volume as whole is focused on the situationally specific character of routine risk management work. It emerges that this riskwork is highly varied, entangled with material artefacts which represent and construct risks and, importantly, is not confined to formal risk management departments or personnel. Each chapter suggest that the distributed nature of this riskwork lives uneasily with formalized risk management protocols and accountability requirements. In addition, riskwork as an organizational process makes contested issues of identity and values readily visible. These 'back stage/back office' encounters with risk are revealed as being as much emotional as they are rationally calculative. Overall, the collection combines constructivist sensibilities about risk objects with a micro-sociological orientation to the study of organizations.

Author : United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015034741598

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports by United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Pdf

Author : D. Curran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137495570

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Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century by D. Curran Pdf

Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century provides a groundbreaking new analysis of the increasingly important relationship between risk and widening inequalities. The massive, and often unequal, impacts of contemporary risks are recognized widely in popular discussions – be it the fall-out from the 2008 financial crisis or Hurricane Katrina – yet there is a distinct neglect in social science of the overall systemic impacts of these risks for increasing inequalities. This book moves beyond this lacuna to identify novel intersections of risk and inequalities. It shows how key processes associated with risk society – the social production and distribution of risks as side-effects – are intensifying inequalities in fundamental ways. In articulating how risk is intensifying both the social sources of suffering of the least advantaged and the power of the most advantaged, this book realizes a significant rethinking of risk, power, and inequalities in contemporary society.