Risk /

"Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. In this book, prominent and eminent speakers from fields as diverse as statistics to classics, neuroscience to crimi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skinns, Layla, Scott, Michael, 1981-, Cox, Tony, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Darwin College lectures ; 24.
Temas:
Risk > Sociological aspects.
Risk perception.
Risk assessment.
Risque > Aspect sociologique.
Perception du risque.
Évaluation du risque.
risk assessment.
REFERENCE > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Risk assessment
Risk perception
Risk > Sociological aspects
Risiko
Unsicherheit
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Layla Skinns, Michael Scott and Tony Cox
  • Quantifying uncertainty / David Spiegelhalter
  • Decisions, risk and the brain / John P. O'Doherty
  • Risk and government: the architectonics of blame avoidance / Christopher Hood
  • Risk and the humanities: Alea iacta est / Mary Beard
  • Terrorism and counterterrorism: what is at risk? / Lucia Zedner
  • 7. Risk and natural catastrophes: the long view / Mark Bailey
  • Risk in the context of (human-induced) climate change / Robert Watson.

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