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Aral Sea
Author_Jeanne Kasperson
Author_Roger E. Kasperson
Bhopal Accident
Border Crossings
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corporate accountability
Corporate Culture
Coupled Human Environment Systems
Disaster Research Center
Du Ponts
Emergency Planning
environmental vulnerability
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Future Bhopals
Global Environmental Change
global risk management frameworks
Hazard Chain
Hazard Events
Hazard Management
hazard perception
Health Administration
Human Risk
Industrial Hazard Management
industrial safety regulation
Mexico City
Mile Island Accident
Nepal Middle Mountains
NRC
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Risk Analysis
Ordos Plateau
Probabilistic Risk Analysis
Reactor Safety Study
Risk and Criticality
risk governance
Risk Studies
Safety Hazards
SARA Amendment
Social Amplification
State Pollution Control Board
technological disaster response
Technological Hazards
Transboundary Risks
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9781844070725
- Weight: 1338g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes 1 and 2, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume II 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, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.
Jeanne X Kasperson was Research Associate Professor and Research Librarian and Roger E Kasperson is Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist also at Clark University, USA.
