Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Risk management and society

MAP20070036762

Risk management and society / edited by Eve Coles, Denis Smith and Steve Tombs. — Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, cop. 2000

XV, 300 p. ; 25 cm . — (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ; 16)

Of course it's safe, trust me! Conceptualising issues of risk management within the "Risk Society" -- A case study in risk management: the UK pumped storage business -- Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management: the need for a paradigm shift? -- Incentives for loss prevention instead of disaster management by the state in the case of catastrophic risks -- History repeating itself? Expertise, barriers to learning and the precautionary principle -- The social construction and deconstruction of risk -- Openig Pandora'box: Stress at work and its implications for emergency management -- Questions of risk and regulation : hegemony, governance and the US chemical industry -- Injury, death and the deregulation fetish: the politics of occupational safety regulation in UK manufacturing industries -- Deregulation and BSE -- The political economy of risk: Piper Alpha and the British offshore oil industry -- Learning the lessons of Piper Alpha? Offshore workers'perceptions of changing levels of risk -- Changing perceptions of risk: the implications for management

ISBN 0-7923-6899-1

1. Gerencia de riesgos . 2. Análisis de riesgos . 3. Política social . 4. Política económica . 5. Industria química . 6. Aspectos sociales . I. Coles, Eve . II. Smith, Denis . III. Tombs, Steve . IV. Advances in natural and technological hazards research ; 16 . V. Title.

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