The Illusion of Risk Control What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Motet, Gilles (Editor), Bieder, Corinne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Organization.; Planning.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Sustainable development.; Welfare economics.; Economic sociology.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Sustainable Development.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

• 1 Uncertainty: new perspectives, questions and proposals, by Gilles Motet
• 2 Uncertainty - its ontological status and relation to safety, by Ove Njå, Øivind Solberg & Geir Sverre Braut
• 3 A conceptual foundation for assessing and managing risk, surprises and black swans, by Terje Aven
• 4 Recognizing complexity in risk management: the challenge of the Improbable, by Jean Pariès
• 5 Promoting safety by increasing uncertainty — Implications for risk Management, by Gudela Grote
• 6 Practices in the danger culture of late industrial society, by Arie Rip
• 7 Judicial Review of Uncertain Risks in Scientific Research, by Eric E. Johnson
• 8 What can Japan’s early modern capital of Edo teach us about risk management?, by Jordan Sand
• 9 Conclusion, by Corinne Bieder.