Risk, Uncertainty and Policy (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
134
Utgivningsdatum
2015-09-02
Förlag
Routledge
Dimensioner
246 x 174 x 12 mm
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408 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781138934566

Risk, Uncertainty and Policy

av Patrick Brown, Anna Olofsson
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2015-09-02
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Policy-making has always involved uncertainty; however the presence of unknowns has become far more conspicuous and problematic in recent times. One important way in which policy-makers have increasingly sought to deal with such uncertainty is through approaches rooted in understandings of risk. This book comprises a rather diverse collection of six chapters, alongside one more explicitly theoretical introduction, each taking up a distinct perspective in scrutinising the relationship between policy, risk and uncertainty. Important concerns addressed within these different studies include: how risk-governance policies are shaped by risk awareness (or a lack thereof) and the mediating role of trust; the framing of policy through an emphasis on particular risks and the corresponding impact on societal beliefs, discourses and institutional power; the organisational processes which lead to some risks being tackled while others are neglected; and processes of (de-) politicising uncertainty at the interface between scientists and policy-makers. Contributors explore trans-national institutions, national bodies, and local government within diverse geographical contexts including China, Brazil, the Baltic Sea, Australia, the UK, and Europe. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Risk Research.
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Patrick Brown is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His recent work includes Making Health Policy, and Trusting on the Edge. Anna Olofsson is Professor in Sociology and Director of Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Oestersund, Sweden. Her research interests include intersectional risk theory and methodologies.

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Introduction Risk, uncertainty and policy: towards a social-dialectical understanding 1. Nuclear power in China after Fukushima: understanding public knowledge, attitudes, and trust 2. The new social contract and the individualisation of risk in policy 3. Towards a global governance of risks: international health organisations and the surveillance of emerging infectious diseases 4. Risks and political responses to climate change in Brazilian coastal cities 5. Unravelling science-policy interactions in environmental risk governance of the Baltic Sea: comparing fisheries and eutrophication 6. Risk policies and risk perceptions: a comparative study of environmental health risk policy and perception in six European countries

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