Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Andy Alaszewski

ISBN 10: 1447365259 / ISBN 13: 9781447365259

Published by Bristol University Press, GB, 2024

About this Item

The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited understanding of how risk can and should be used in policy making. This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making, including its role in rhetoric to legitimise decisions and choices. Using risk as a framework, it examines how policy makers in a range of countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and explains why some were more successful than others.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Publisher: Bristol University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447365259
• ISBN 13: 9781447365259
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited understanding of how risk can and should be used in policy making.

This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making, including its role in rhetoric to legitimise decisions and choices.

Using risk as a framework, it examines how policy makers in a range of countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and explains why some were more successful than others.

About the Author

Andy Alaszewski is Emeritus Professor of Health Studies at the University of Kent. He is a social scientist who has specialised in the study of health risk and society, and is the Founding Editor of the international journal 'Health, Risk and Society’.