Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107402689 ISBN 13: 9781107402683

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organizations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This book shows how we can organize our social, organizational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. Contributors from a range of disciplines – including finance, history, law, management, political science, social psychology, sociology and disaster studies – consider threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities alongside social and organizational sources of resilience and security. These issues are introduced and discussed through a fascinating and diverse set of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy and the recent financial crisis. This is an important book for academics and policy makers who wish to understand the dilemmas generated in the anticipation and management of risks.

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Book Description

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. This 2010 book shows how we can organise our social, organisational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter.

About the Author

Bridget M. Hutter is Professor of Risk Regulation and Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author of numerous publications on the subject of risk regulation and has an international reputation for her work on compliance, regulatory enforcement and business risk-management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107402689
• ISBN 13: 9781107402683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Hutter Bridget M.