Risk
Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a 'risk thermostat' and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behavior that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, m...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London [England] : [Bristol, PA] :
UCL Press
1995.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798048706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Risk: an Introduction; 2 Risk and the Royal Society; ""Actual risk"": what is it?; Can risk be measured?; Exposure; The response to risk: risk compensation; Homo prudens and free will; Risk: an interactive phenomenon; Problems of measurement; Varieties or uncertainty; 3 Patterns in Uncertainty; The world's largest industry; Patterns in uncertainty; Myths of human nature; Divergent perspectives on environmental threats: an example of the cultural construction of risk; The four rationalities as contending paradigms
- The cultural construction of pollution Adding cultural filters to the risk thermostat; Groping in the dark; The Sydney Smith dilemma; 4 Error, Chance and culture; The conventional wisdom; Enter Homo aleatorius; Balancing behaviour; Types of error; Acceptability of risk; The efficacy of intervention; The importance of context; Scale, and voluntary versus involuntary risk; Error, chance and culture; 5 Measuring Risk; Not enough accidental deaths; What gets recorded?; Regression-to-mean and accident migration; Cultural filtering; Noise and bias; Off the road; Near misses; 6 Monetizing Risk
- Some problems Contingent valuation; Death: the ultimate challenge; Cultural filters; Kakadu National Park: an example; Who wants to monetize risk?; 7 Roas Safety 1: Seat Belts; The UK seat belt law; Three postscripts; Cultural theory; Cultural filters; Introspection; 8 Road safety 2: More Filtering; Safe roads and dangerous countries; Safer vehicles?; Safer roads?; Safer road users?; A speculation; Bicycle helmets; The reaction; Motorcycle helmets; Alcohol and ignorance; The spike; Unsupportable claims; 9 A Large RIsk: The Greenhouse Effect; Alternative futures; The debate; Arguing in the dark
- Vogon economics and the hyperspatial bypass Tomorrow the world; An introspective postscript; 10 The Risk Society; Beck and cultural theory; Beck versus Wildavsky; Prescriptions; Professional disaster; The unimportance of being right; To avoid suffocation, keep away from children; Can better science resolve the debate?; 11 Can we Manage Risk Better?; Wishful thinking; Abstractions and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness; Complicating the theory - a little bit; The mad officials; So, can we manage risk better?; The advice of others; How to manage risk; References; Index
