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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The perspective is a realist constructivist one, which means that risk and policy are taken to be socially predicated insofar as we can choose and change the way we define and interact with its practices. It is realist insofar as we continually use such constructions to re-define and re-structure the world we live in.
Although essentially theory-driven and conceptually oriented, the authors develop their argument for a new interpretation of policy-relevant science through a number of pressing case studies. These studies include the recent BSE/CJD crises in the UK, the introduction of Marine Protected Areas in Sweden, and the current practices surrounding risk management in corporate bodies.
Drawing on empirical cases and theoretical explication, the book provides a number of suggestions as to how risk analysis and risk management may be more properly conceived of both from a practitioner as well as from an academic point of view.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policy Uncertainty and Risk
Book Subtitle: Conceptual Developments and Approaches
Authors: Tomas Hellström, Merle Jacob
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1559-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7234-9Published: 31 December 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5614-1Published: 21 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1559-3Published: 28 June 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 135
Topics: Political Science, Economic Policy, Public Economics