Risk Management and Society

1. Front Matter

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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.

• Emergency management
• Risk Management
• business
• deregulation
• economy
• management
• organization
• risk analysis
• trust
• hydrogeology

• 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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