The Illusion of Risk Control
What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?
Editors: Motet, Gilles, Bieder, Corinne (Eds.)
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- Analyzes the implications of uncertainty for high-risk organizations
- Presents viewpoints of leading researchers from a range of scientific disciplines
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and ambiguity are prominent features of the risk landscape. The new definition of risk used by ISO, “the effect of uncertainty on [achievement of] one’s objectives”, recognizes this paradigm change. What lessons can we draw from the management of fire hazards in Edo-era Japan? Are there situations in which increasing uncertainty allows more effective safety management? How should society address the risk of potentially planet-destroying scientific experiments?
This book presents insights from leading scholars in different disciplines to challenge current risk governance and safety management practice.
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Uncertainty: New Perspectives, Questions and Proposals
Pages 1-4
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Uncertainty—Its Ontological Status and Relation to Safety
Pages 5-21
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A Conceptual Foundation for Assessing and Managing Risk, Surprises and Black Swans
Pages 23-39
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Recognizing Complexity in Risk Management: The Challenge of the Improbable
Pages 41-55
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Practices in the Danger Culture of Late Industrial Society
Pages 57-66
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Illusion of Risk Control
- Book Subtitle
- What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?
- Editors
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- Gilles Motet
- Corinne Bieder
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Safety Management
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-32939-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-32939-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-32938-3
- Series ISSN
- 2520-8004
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- V, 112
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations
- Topics
