Risk Management and Society

Foreword. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Of course it's safe, trust me! Conceptualising issues of risk management within the `Risk Society'; D. Smith, S. Tombs. A case study in risk management: the UK pumped storage business; A.I. Glendon, et al. Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management: The Need for a paradigm shift? C. Smallman. Incentives for loss prevention instead of disaster management by the state in the case of catastrophic risks; W.R. Stahel. History repeating itself? Expertise, barriers to learning and the precautionary principle; D. Smith, J. McCloskey. The social construction and deconstruction of risk; H. Höpfl. Opening Pandora's box: Stress at work and its implications for emergency management; D. Smith, D. Elliott. Questions of Risk and regulation: Hegemony, governance and the US chemical industry; F. Pearce, S. Tombs. Injury, death and the deregulation fetish: The politics of occupational safety regulation in UK manufacturing industries; S. Tombs. Deregulation and BSE; C. Gifford. The political economy of risk: Piper Alpha and the British offshore oil industry; M. Beck, C. Woolfson. Learning the lessons of Piper Alpha? Offshore workers' perceptions of changing levels of risk; D. Whyte. Changing perceptions of risk: The Implications for Management; E. Coles, et al. Index.