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Through its exploration of the spatial dimensions of risk, this book offers an approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in to how manage, tolerate and take risks. It examines a range of risks, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and state failure.

Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. Based on an intensive five year study of how experts actually go about assessing the future, this title provides an examination of foresighting in action. It aims to help readers to reflect on their own practices of public-oriented foresight.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws together new examples of research and practice from contexts as diverse as energy generation, human health, nuclear waste, climate change, food choice, and social media. This book treats risk communication as much more than the interchange of risk information between experts and non-experts; rather, it aims to emphasise the diversity in viewpoints and practices. In each specially commissioned chapter, the authors reflect on the theoretical and applied underpinnings of their best projects and comment on how their approach could be used effectively by others. Building upon each other, the chapters will provoke new discussion and action around a discipline which many feel is neither meeting important needs in practice, nor living up to its potential in research. Through a more careful examination of the work already done in risk communication, the book will help develop better, more reflective practice for the future.

Brings together some of the top authors from the fields of risk, philosophy, social sciences and psychology to address the issue of how we should decide how far technological risks are morally acceptable or not. This book is suitable for researchers and students.

Uncertainty governs our lives. This title examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics. It focuses on key problems such as environmental management, communicable diseases and illicit drugs. It offers major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking.

Offers a topical perspective on the alternative concept of 'Tolerability of Risk' and its regulatory applications. This book presents a summary of theoretical perspectives on risk approaches, providing elicitation of the methods and approaches used to build the Tolerability of Risk framework.

Uncertainty governs our lives. This title draws theoretical perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. It examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics.

In the UK, Tolerability of Risk has been developed into a sophisticated framework, particularly within the health and safety sectors. This title provides a historical and topical perspective on the alternative concept of 'Tolerability of Risk' and its concrete regulatory applications.

Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries. In this title, distinguished international researchers make a significant contribution to the understanding and management of transboundary environmental risks. It provides evidence and analysis for those working on international environmental issues and all aspects of risk management.

Presents a fundamental critique of the approaches to understanding and managing risk - the 'rational actor paradigm'. This title shows how risk studies must incorporate the competing interests, values, and rationalities of those involved and find a balance of trust and acceptable risk.