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Risk governance : coping with uncertainty in a complex world / Ortwin Renn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Earthscan risk and society series | Earthscan risk in society seriesPublication details: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.Description: xx, 455 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781844072910 (hardnack : alk. paper)
  • 9781844072927 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302/.12 22
LOC classification:
  • HM1101 .R46 2008
Other classification:
  • 85.30
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Contents:
Introduction -- What is risk? -- Pre-assessment -- Appraisal -- Risk perception -- Risk evaluation -- Risk management -- Risk communication -- Risk participation -- The social and political context of risk governance.
Review: "This book, for the first time, brings together and updates the work of renowned risk theorist and researcher Ortwin Renn, integrating the major disciplinary concepts of risk in the social, engineering and natural sciences. The book opens with the context of risk handling before flowing through the core topics of assessment, evaluation, perception, management and communication, culminating in a look at the transition from risk management to risk governance and a glimpse of a new understanding of risk in (post)modern societies."--BOOK JACKET.
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Books Books Australian Emergency Management Library BOOK 302.12 REN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900114521

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-443) and index.

Introduction -- What is risk? -- Pre-assessment -- Appraisal -- Risk perception -- Risk evaluation -- Risk management -- Risk communication -- Risk participation -- The social and political context of risk governance.

"This book, for the first time, brings together and updates the work of renowned risk theorist and researcher Ortwin Renn, integrating the major disciplinary concepts of risk in the social, engineering and natural sciences. The book opens with the context of risk handling before flowing through the core topics of assessment, evaluation, perception, management and communication, culminating in a look at the transition from risk management to risk governance and a glimpse of a new understanding of risk in (post)modern societies."--BOOK JACKET.

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