The contributors cover the new risks associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. They also demonstrate why the main arguments covered before -- centred on environmental, health and personal risk -- reverberate throughout social theory.

This work arose out of the author's awareness that there was little material relating to the assessment of risks for people with learning disabilities. It aims to provide a readily understood explanation of the concept of risk.

This book identifies the pitfalls of applying precautionary strategies to high-stakes risks that have already become entrenched. Precaution must be applied on a precautionary basis, considering alternative paths to progress that maintain natural risk levels. This requires a radical rethinking of the way we define and achieve progress.

Risk Society and Beyond traces the evolution of Ulrich Beck 's ideas as expressed in Risk Society (SAGE 1992) and expands into previously unforeseen risk areas.

This edition of Risk Communication and Public Health brings together a wide variety of perspectives on risk communication, from the health professions, academia, campaigning organisations, government and its advisory committees, independent consultancies and think tanks.

Provides a comprehensive coverage of both the how and why of metal failures. This book attempts to gives engineers the intellectual tools and practical understanding needed to analyze failures from a structural point of view.

Provides guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. This title offers a survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can participate in inclusive risk governance.

Explores issues such as the measurement of risk in its social context, the idea that the mass media or the political opposition always exaggerate risk, and the notion that the advice of the expert is the best we can get as far as risks are concerned.

Uncertainty governs our lives. This title draws theoretical perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. It examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics.

This title introduces a fresh approach to managing risk in investment portfolios. Up to now analysis has been focused on estimating the potential risks of individuals assets - but far less on the implications for the overall risk of a portfolio.

An encyclopedia of quantitative risk analysis and assessment. It provides material on drug safety, investment theory, public policy applications, transportation safety, public perception of risk, epidemiological risk, national defence and security, critical infrastructure, and program management.

Risk management combines considerable quantitative skills with practical and intuitive competencies. Presenting both mathematical aspects and practical skills, this book introduces the foundations of risk management and shows how these concepts are used to create practical risk management systems.

Explores aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. This book is an examination of trust in its forms and complexities. It integrates diverse research traditions and provides insights into the phenomenon of trust.

Suitable for researchers and graduate students in the areas of applied probability and insurance risk.

Presents the theoretical underpinnings of environmental or human health risk assessments. This text includes chapters that present methods for conducting hazard identification, dose-response and exposure assessment, and risk characterization components for risk assessments of chemical hazards to humans or wildlife (fish, birds, and terrestrials).

Offers an analysis of the Columbia disaster and the organizational lessons that can be learned from it. This title includes contributions from those involved in the Investigation Board report into the incident.

This work examines how decisions about risk and uncertainty relate to moral principles and ethical conduct. The papers analyse the broader social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of risk and morality.

Four of the world's leading risk researchers present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approach to understanding and managing risk - the rational actor paradigm . They show how risk studies must incorporate the competing interests, values, and rationalities of those involved.

Volume two centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, say, a corporate framework.

The establishment of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) was the result of widespread concern that the complexity and interdependence of health, environmental, and technological risks facing the world. This book details how the IRGC developed and proposed framework for risk governance.