Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Risk management and society

Publicación: Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, cop. 2000Descripción física: XV, 300 p. ; 25 cmSerie: (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ; 16)Notas: 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 managementMateria / lugar / evento: Gerencia de riesgos Análisis de riesgos Política social Política económica Industria química Aspectos sociales Otros autores: Coles, Eve
Smith, Denis
Tombs, Steve
Serie secundaria: Advances in natural and technological hazards research ; 16 Otras clasificaciones: 7Números normalizados: ISBN 0-7923-6899-1

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