Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management
eBook - ePub

Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management

About this book

Risk is an enduring theme of modern life. It permeates political, economic and environmental domains. Some risks are unavoidable. Others are not. Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management provides ideas and action plans for in a risk society.

Dealing with issues of civil safety and security, the book addresses the management of socio-technical risks and hazards, environmental risk, and risk perception. Focusing on risk reduction, chapters cover key themes such as terrorism, public order, emergency responding, energy supply, climate change, and natural disasters.

Featuring contributions from expert scholars, the book is both accessible and original. Practitioners in the emergency services, industry and commerce will find the book to be valuable reading, whilst for policy makers, students and academics with a focus on risk and crisis management, this is an essential reference.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Empowering Emergency Responders
  8. 2 Terrorism and the Risk Society
  9. 3 The Emergent Nature of Risk as a Product of ā€˜Heterogeneous Engineeringā€™: A Relational Analysis of Oil and Gas Industry Safety Culture
  10. 4 The Inhuman: Risk and the Social Impact of Information and Communication Technologies
  11. 5 Risk as Workersā€™ Remembered Utility in the Late-Modern Economy
  12. 6 Aviation and Corporate Social Responsibility
  13. 7 Investigating Resilience, Through ā€˜Before and Afterā€™ Perspectives on Residual Risk
  14. 8 Managing Risks in a Climatically Dynamic Environment: How Global Climate Change Presents Risks, Challenges and Opportunities
  15. 9 A Future for Late-Modern Social Formations in Detroit?
  16. 10 Conclusion
  17. Index