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Product Description
* The most thorough examination of ‘uncertainty,’ the core concept in risk theory and management
* Covers a wide range of perspectives, practice and problems including environmental risk, emergency planning, terrorism, law enforcement, communicable disease and public health
* Develops an integrated view of the nature of uncertainty,examines uncertainty as a motivating force and provides strategies for coping and managing under uncertainty
Uncertainty governs our lives. From the unknowns of investing in the stock market, living with the risks of terrorism, developing policies on
genetically-modified foods, or disaster planning for catastrophic climate change, how we conceptualize, evaluate and cope with uncertainty drives our actions and deployment of resources, decisions and priorities. This volume is the most wide-ranging and thorough examination of uncertainty. Theoretical perspectives are drawn from complexity science, economics, futures, history, art history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. On a practical level, uncertainty in risk management and practice are examined in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, policy, politics and music. Key problems that are a subject of focus are the environment, communicable diseases and illicit drugs. Opening and closing sections of the book build on major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking and seek to develop an integrated view of the nature of uncertainty, uncertainty as a motivating or de-motivating force, and strategies for coping and managing under uncertainty.
Contributors include Jerome Ravetz, University of Oxford; Roger Kasperson, Clark University; Stephen Dovers, Australian National University; Nick Pidgeon, Cardiff University; John Handmer, RMIT University, Australia.
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