Risk management and society

Of course it’s safe, trust me! Conceptualising issues of risk management within the `Risk Society’.- A case study in risk management: the UK pumped storage business.- Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management: The Need for a paradigm shift?.- Incentives for loss prevention instead of disaster management by the state in the case of catastrophic risks.- History repeating itself? Expertise, barriers to learning and the precautionary principle.- The social construction and deconstruction of risk.- Opening Pandora’s box: Stress at work and its implications for emergency management.- Questions of risk and regulation: Hegemony, governance and the US chemical industry.- Injury, death and the deregulation fetish: The politics of occupational safety regulation in UK manufacturing industries.- Deregulation and BSE.- The political economy of risk: Piper Alpha and the British offshore oil industry.- Learning the lessons of Piper Alpha? Offshore workers’ perceptions of changing levels of risk.- Changing perceptions of risk: The Implications for Management.