The Social Contours Of Risk Risk Analysis Corporations And The Globalization Of Risk

Author : Jeanne X. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844071753

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The Social Contours of Risk: Risk analysis, corporations and the globalization of risk by Jeanne X. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson Pdf

The Social Contours of RiskVolume I: Publics, Risk Communication and the Social Amplification of RiskWe live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field.Volume I collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities, corporations and the larger society. It analyses the problems of lack of transparency and trust, and explores how even minor effects can be amplified and distorted through media and social responses, preventing effective management. The final section investigates the difficult ethical issues raised by the unequal distribution of risk depending on factors such as wealth, location and genetic inheritance - with examples from worker and public protection, facility-siting conflicts, transporting hazardous waste and widespread impacts such as climate change.

Author : Jeanne X. Kasperson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental risk assessment
ISBN : 1844071758

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The Social Contours of Risk by Jeanne X. Kasperson Pdf

Author : Jeanne X. Kasperson,Kasperson Roger E Kasperson Jeanne X,Roger E. Kasperson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849772568

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Social Contours of Risk by Jeanne X. Kasperson,Kasperson Roger E Kasperson Jeanne X,Roger E. Kasperson Pdf

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification distribution and management of risks from new technology environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk Volumes I and II two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume I collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders including local communities corporations and the larger society. It analyses the problems of lack of transparency and trust and explores how even minor effects can be amplified and distorted through media and social responses preventing effective management. The final section investigates the difficult ethical issues raised by the unequal distribution of risk depending on factors such as wealth location and genetic inheritance - with examples from worker and public protection facility-siting conflicts transporting hazardous waste and widespread impacts such as climate change. Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society in international business and multinationals and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context whether the larger society or in for example a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.

Author : Roger E Kasperson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136557132

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Social Contours of Risk by Roger E Kasperson Pdf

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.

Author : Roger E. Kasperson,Jeanne Kasperson
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849772556

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The Social Contours of Risk by Roger E. Kasperson,Jeanne Kasperson Pdf

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes 1 and 2, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.

Author : Jeanne X. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental risk assessment
ISBN : 1844070727

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The Social Contours of Risk: Publics, risk communication and the social. amplificiation of risk by Jeanne X. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson Pdf

Jeanne and Roger Kasperson are two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk. This book brings together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field.

Author : Jeanne X. Kasperson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Commercial law
ISBN : LCCN:2005250056

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The Social Contours of Risk by Jeanne X. Kasperson Pdf

Author : Terje Aven,Ortwin Renn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642139260

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Risk Management and Governance by Terje Aven,Ortwin Renn Pdf

Risk is a popular topic in many sciences - in natural, medical, statistical, engineering, social, economic and legal disciplines. Yet, no single discipline can grasp the full meaning of risk. Investigating risk requires a multidisciplinary approach. The authors, coming from two very different disciplinary traditions, meet this challenge by building bridges between the engineering, the statistical and the social science perspectives. The book provides a comprehensive, accessible and concise guide to risk assessment, management and governance. A basic pillar for the book is the risk governance framework proposed by the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC). This framework offers a comprehensive means of integrating risk identification, assessment, management and communication. The authors develop and explain new insights and add substance to the various elements of the framework. The theoretical analysis is illustrated by several examples from different areas of applications.

Author : Terry Marsden
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1960 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781526421975

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The SAGE Handbook of Nature by Terry Marsden Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of Nature offers an ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences. The three volumes are divided into the following parts: INTRODUCTION TO THE HANDBOOK NATURAL AND SOCIO-NATURAL VULNERABILITIES: INTERWEAVING THE NATURAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES SPACING NATURES: SUSTAINABLE PLACE MAKING AND ADAPTATION COUPLED AND (DE-COUPLED) SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS RISK AND THE ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL THEORIES, PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS, & THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE HUNGRY AND THIRSTY CITIES AND THEIR REGIONS CRITICAL CONSUMERISM AND ITS MANUFACTURED NATURES GENDERED NATURES AND ECO-FEMINISM REPRODUCTIVE NATURES: PLANTS, ANIMALS AND PEOPLE NATURE, CLASS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY BIO-SENSITIVITY & THE ECOLOGIES OF HEALTH THE RESOURCE NEXUS AND ITS RELEVANCE SUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIES RURAL NATURES AND THEIR CO-PRODUCTION This handbook is a key critical research resource for researchers and practitioners across the social sciences and their contributions to related disciplines associated with the fast developing interdisciplinary field of sustainability science.

Author : Ortwin Renn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136557972

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Risk Governance by Ortwin Renn Pdf

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. Renns 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.

Author : Nick Pidgeon,Roger E. Kasperson,Paul Slovic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521520444

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The Social Amplification of Risk by Nick Pidgeon,Roger E. Kasperson,Paul Slovic Pdf

This volume brings together case studies and theoretical work informed by the social amplification of risk framework.

Author : Lelia Green,Donell Holloway,Kylie Stevenson,Tama Leaver,Leslie Haddon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351004084

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The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children by Lelia Green,Donell Holloway,Kylie Stevenson,Tama Leaver,Leslie Haddon Pdf

This companion presents the newest research in this important area, showcasing the huge diversity in children’s relationships with digital media around the globe, and exploring the benefits, challenges, history, and emerging developments in the field. Children are finding novel ways to express their passions and priorities through innovative uses of digital communication tools. This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challenging circumstances, the interdisciplinary approach ensures a careful, nuanced, multi-dimensional exploration of children’s relationships with digital media. Featuring a highly international range of case studies, perspectives, and socio-cultural contexts, The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children is the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of media and communication, family and technology studies, psychology, education, anthropology, and sociology, as well as interested teachers, policy makers, and parents.

Author : Thoko Kaime
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136020483

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International Climate Change Law and Policy by Thoko Kaime Pdf

Climate change poses fundamental and varied challenges to all communities across the globe. The adaptation and mitigation strategies proposed by governments and non-governmental organisations are likely to require radical and fundamental shifts in socio-political structures, technological and economic systems, organisational forms, and modes of regulation. The sheer volume of law and policy emanating from the international level makes it uncertain which type of regulatory or policy framework is likely to have a positive impact. The success or failure of proposed measures will depend on their acceptability within the local constituencies within which they are sought to be applied. Therefore there is an urgent need to better comprehend and theorise the role of cultural legitimacy in the choice and effectiveness of international legal and policy interventions aimed at tackling the impact of climate change. The book brings together experts to present perspectives from different disciplines on the issue of international climate change law and policy. Beginning from the premise that legitimacy critiques of international climate change regulation have the capacity to positively influence policy trends and legal choices, the book showcases innovative ideas from across the disciplines and investigate the link between the efficacy of international legal and policy mechanisms on climate change and cultural legitimacy. The book includes chapters on with a theoretical basis as well as specific case-studies from around the globe. The topics covered include: land use planning as a tool of enhancing cultural legitimacy, indigenous peoples in international environmental negotiations, transnational advocacy networks, community-based forestry management and culture and voluntary social movements.

Author : Mehtab Singh,R.B. Singh,M.I. Hassan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9784431548713

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Landscape Ecology and Water Management by Mehtab Singh,R.B. Singh,M.I. Hassan Pdf

The over-exploitation of important earth resources such as land and water has led to a number of environment-related problems the world over. At the same time, land-use change caused by various human activities has led to extinction of many plant and animal habitats and species. In this context, the relevance of biodiversity for human survival is becoming a major international political issue as scientific evidence builds on the global health implications of biodiversity loss. These issues are closely linked with the issue of climate change, as many of the health risks due to climate change are associated with rapid degradation of biodiversity. This present work focuses on holistic natural resource-based spatio-temporal planning, development and management and considers them as essential to save the degraded ecosystem for sustainable resource management. Contributions are compiled in two volumes: 1. Climate Change and Biodiversity and 2. Landscape Ecology and Water Management. Geoinformatics along with its tools such as remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been used in assessing the results of various environmental problems both physical and social. These volumes will be useful for geographers, geoscientists, hydrologists, landscape ecologists, environmentalists, engineers, planners and policy makers.

Author : Maria Bostenaru Dan,Iuliana Armas,Agostino Goretti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789400779815

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Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning by Maria Bostenaru Dan,Iuliana Armas,Agostino Goretti Pdf

​The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader view on multihazards in urban areas. Uniquely among other works in the field, particular importance is given to urban planning issues, in conservation of heritage and emergency management. Multicriteria decision making and broad participation of those affected by disasters are included.