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Risk Management and Society

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Editors:
  1. Eve Coles

    1. Centre for Risk and Crisis Management, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  2. Denis Smith

    1. Centre for Risk and Crisis Management, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  3. Steve Tombs

    1. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

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Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 16)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Of Course It’s Safe, Trust Me!

    • Denis Smith, Steve Tombs
    Pages 1-30

  3. A Case Study in Risk Management: The UK Pumped Storage Business

    • A. Ian Glendon, Bryan O’Loughlin, Richard T. Booth
    Pages 31-52

  4. Challenging the Orthodoxy in Risk Management

    • Clive Smallman
    Pages 53-79

  5. Incentives for Loss Prevention Instead of Disaster Management by the State in the Case of Catastrophic Risks

    • Walter R. Stahel
    Pages 81-100

  6. History Repeating Itself?

    • Denis Smith, Jo McCloskey
    Pages 101-124

  7. The Social Construction and Deconstruction of Risk

    • Heather Höpfl
    Pages 125-142

  8. Opening Pandora’s Box

    • Denis Smith, Dominic Elliott
    Pages 143-163

  9. Questions of Risk and Regulation

    • Frank Pearce, Steve Tombs
    Pages 165-187

  10. Injury, Death and the Deregulation Fetish

    • Steve Tombs
    Pages 189-206

  11. Deregulation and BSE

    • Christopher Gifford
    Pages 207-225

  12. The Political Economy of Risk: Piper Alpha and the British Offshore Oil Industry

    • Matthias Beck, Charles Woolfson
    Pages 227-262

  13. Learning the Lessons of Piper Alpha?

    • David Whyte
    Pages 263-283

  14. Changing Perceptions of Risk

    • Eve Coles, Denis Smith, Steve Tombs
    Pages 285-295

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 297-302
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Recent events like the BSE and GM food crises, and the Concorde crash in July 2000, have illustrated that large private and public sector organisations are vulnerable and can suffer from major disruption to their business. Awareness of the need to develop expertise in risk management has grown and as a result new programs of research and teaching in risk and crisis management are being developed at universities.
The contributions to this volume have been selected by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to risk, and by considering the implications for management, business and society. The contributions are written by recognized experts in their fields and represent a unique collection of papers on the topic.
Audience: The book will be of benefit to scientists, managers, politicians and trainers in academia, business and industry involved in risk analysis, assessment and management, regulation and deregulation of risk, crisis management and accidents and disasters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Risk and Crisis Management, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Eve Coles, Denis Smith

  • Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Steve Tombs

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