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Critical risk research : practices, politics and ethics / edited by Matthew Kearnes, Francisco Klauser, Stuart Lane.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental engineering.
- Risk management.
- Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics offers a collection of essays, written by a wide variety of international researchers in risk research, about what it means to do risk research, and about how - and with what effects - risk research is practiced, articulated and exploited. This approach is based upon the core assumption that: to make a difference in the study of risk, we must move beyond what we usually do, challenging the core assumptions, scientific, economic and social, about how we study, frame, exploit and govern risk. Hence, through a series of essays, the book aims
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Practices in risk research
- pt. 2. Politics in risk research
- pt. 3. Ethics in risk research.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613615831
- 9781119945253
- 1119945259
- 9781280586002
- 1280586001
- 9781119962748
- 1119962749
- 9781119962731
- 1119962730
- OCLC:
- 780444582
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