附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Volume 1 Cover; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction and Overview; Part 1: Communicating Risk and Involving Publics; Part 2: The Social Amplification of Risk; Part 3: Risk and Ethics; References; Index; Volume 2 Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction and Overview by Roger E. Kasperson; PART 1 RISK AND SOCIETY: FRAMING THE ISSUES; PART 2 CORPORATIONS AND RISK; PART 3 THE GLOBALIZATION OF RISK; References; Index.
摘要:We live in a 'risk society' where the identification distribution and management of risks from new technology environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk Volumes I and II two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume I collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders including local communities corporations and the larger.