Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation
“Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation” by Bridget M. Hutter, published by Cambridge University Press on August 5, 2010, is a comprehensive examination of risk management in contemporary society. This 320-page book explores how both private and public sector organizations allocate resources for risk prevention and contingency planning to effectively manage potential risk events. It delves into the organization of social, organizational, and regulatory policy systems to better address the diverse local and transnational risks faced today.
Readers will find a multidisciplinary approach as contributors from fields such as finance, law, sociology, and disaster studies discuss various threats, vulnerabilities, and sources of resilience. The book covers a range of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy, and the recent financial crisis, providing insights into the complexities of risk anticipation and management. This edition serves as a valuable resource for academics and policymakers interested in understanding the challenges associated with risk regulation and strategic planning.
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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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