Future Risks and Risk Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design for Safety

   • Jens Rasmussen

   Pages 1-36

3. Epistemic Risk: The Significance of Knowing What One Does Not Know

   • Nils-Eric Sahlin, Johannes Persson

   Pages 37-62

4. Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge

   • Paul Slovic

   Pages 63-78

5. Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk

   • Berndt Brehmer

   Pages 79-91

6. Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives

   • Jonas Josefsson, Göran Hermerén, Nils-Eric Sahlin

   Pages 93-123

7. The Psychology of Risk Characterization

   • Baruch Fischhoff

   Pages 125-139

8. Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust

   • Timothy C. Earle, George Cvetkovich

   Pages 141-181

9. Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management

   • K. S. Shrader-Frechette

   Pages 183-251

10. Back Matter

    Pages 253-255

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Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors. No other volume adopts this broad perspective. Future Risks and Risk Management will be useful in a variety of contexts, both for teaching and as a source book for the risk professional needing to be informed of the broader issues in the field.

• Risk Communication
• Risk Management
• management
• organization
• psychology

• Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  Berndt Brehmer

• Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  Nils-Eric Sahlin

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