Anticipating risks and organising risk regulation / [edited by] Bridget M. Hutter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutter, Bridget M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk management.

Risk management--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Anticipating Risks & Organising Risk Regulation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organisations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This 2010 book shows how we can organise our social, organisational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. Contributors from a range of disciplines - including finance, history, law, management, political science, social psychology, sociology and disaster studies - consider threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities alongside social and organisational sources of resilience and security. These issues are introduced and discussed through a fascinating and diverse set of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy and the financial crisis. This is an important book for academics and policy makers who wish to understand the dilemmas generated in the anticipation and management of risks.

Contents:

Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation : current dilemmas / Bridget M. Hutter

Threat, vulnerabilities and insecurities. Risk society and financial risk / Clive Briault ; Before the sky falls down : a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of internet addresses / Jeanette Hofmann ; Changing attitudes to risk? : managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain / Peter Bartrip ; Public perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK / Sally Lloyd-Bostock ; Colonised by risk : the emergence of academic risks in British higher education / Michael Huber

Social, organisational and regulatory sources of resilience and security. Regulating resilience? : regulatory work in high-risk arenas / Carl Macrae ; Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects : the Olympic Games / Will Jennings and Martin Lodge ; Creating space for engagement? : Lay membership in contemporary risk governance / Kevin E. Jones and Alan Irwin ; Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research' : the case of gene therapy / Javier Lezaun ; Preparing for future crises : lessons from research / Arjen Boin ; Conclusion : important themes and future research directions / Bridget M. Hutter.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20448-8

0-511-84897-8

1-282-77081-0

9786612770814

0-511-90865-2

0-511-90790-7

0-511-90662-5

0-511-90941-1

0-511-76155-4

0-511-90534-3

OCLC:

665581302