Social Contours of Risk: Two Volume Set

ISBN-13: 9781844070725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 344 str.

Jeanne X. Kasperson; Roger E. Kasperson

Opis

Collects fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities, corporations and the larger society. This title focuses on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally.

Spis treści

Part 1 Risk and Society: Framing the Issues  Acceptability of Human Risk  Societal Response to Hazards and Major Hazard Events: Comparing Natural and Technological Hazards  Large-scale Nuclear Risk Analysis: Its Impacts and Future  Part 2 Corporations and Risk  Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research  Avoiding Future Bhopals  Emergency Planning for Industrial Crises: An Overview  Corporate Culture and Technology Transfer  Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal  Part 3 The Globalization of Risk  Hazards in Developing Countries: Cause for Global Concern  Priorities in Profile: Managing Risks in Developing Countries  Risk and Criticality: Trajectories of Regional Environmental  Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, Massachusetts, US  Border Crossings  Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change

O autorze

Jeanne X Kasperson was Research Associate Professor and Research Librarian and Roger E Kasperson is Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist also at Clark University, USA.