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Beskrivning
This text aims to provide a broad perspective on risk, including: basic philosophical issues concerned with values; psychological issues, such as the perception of risk; and the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors. The book is designed to be useful in a variety of contexts, both for teaching and as a source book for the risk professional needing to be informed of the broader issues in the field.
I Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design for Safety.- II Epistemic Risk: The Significance of Knowing What One Does Not Know.- III Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge.- IV Psychological Research on Risk: Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk.- V Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives.- VI The Psychology of Risk Characterization.- VII Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust.- VIII Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management.- List of Contributors.