Accident And Design Contemporary Debates On Risk Management

Anticipation in risk management - a stich in time...? Anticipation versus reliance, Christopher Hood, David Jones; Anticipating the risk posed by natural perils, David Jones; Hazard engineering, David Blockley; Resilience, flexibility and diversity in managing the risks of technologies, David Collingridge. Absolution, liability and blame - pointing the finger: Absolutism versus blame, Christopher Hood, david Jones; Criminal law, blame and risk: the case of corporate manslaughter, Celia Wells; The problem of blame, Tom Horlick-Jones; Blame, punishment and risk management, A. Neil Johnston. Quantitative risk assessment and risk management - faith in figures: The extent to which statistics are signs from God, Christopher Hood, David Jones; Quantitative risk assessment and decisions about risk: an essential input into the decision process, A.V. Cohen; Limits to the mathematical modelling of disasters, B. Toft. Designing institutions - a house of cards? The feasibility of institutional design in risk management, Christopher Hood, David Jones; Risk and disaster: the role of communications breakdown in plane crashes and business failure, David Weir; Criteria for the design of hazard mitigation instructions, Edmund Penning-Rowsell. Counting the cost: Risk reduction, but at what price? Christopher Hood, David Jones; Is safety a by-product of quality management, Tom Horlick-Jones; Risk management: an economist's approach, Sir Christopher Foster. Participation in risk management decisions: To what extent is risk management best left to experts, Christopher Hood, David Jones; technocracy, democracy, secrecy and error, Nick Pidgeon; Risk management, post-normal science and extended peer communities, Silvio O. Funtowicz, Jerome R. Ravetz; Exploring the role of civic science in risk management, Timothy O'Riordan. The regulatory target - crying over spilt milk: Should regulation be targeted on physical products or institutional processes, Christopher Hood, David Jones; Risk and emerging technology: the case of process-based regulation of biotechnology in Europe, Simon Shohet. Conclusion - learning from your desk lamp: Homeostatic versus collaborationist approaches to risk management, Christopher Hood, David Jones; When extremes meet: sprat versus shark in public risk management, Christopher Hood.

Biography

C. Hood, D. K. C. Jones