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  title info:
    title: Essentials of Risk Theory
  name:
    name part: Roeser, Sabine.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hillerbrand, Rafaela.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sandin, Per.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Peterson, Martin.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 148 p. online resource.
  abstract: Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered in the Handbook of Risk Theory. The topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of risk? What does the human perception of risk mean for society? How should we judge whether a risk is morally acceptable or not? Over the last couple of decades questions like these have attracted interest from philosophers and other scholars into risk theory. This brief offers the essentials of the handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research and addresses a wide range of topics, ranging from decision theory, risk perception to ethics and social implications of risk. It aims to promote communication and information among all those who are interested in theoretical issues concerning risk and uncertainty. The Essentials of Risk Theory brings together internationally leading philosophers and scholars from other disciplines who work on risk theory. The contributions are accessibly written and highly relevant to issues that are studied by risk scholars. The Essentials of Risk Theory will be a helpful starting point for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives. .
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Editors -- List of Contributors [abridged] -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Risk Theory: Sabine Roeser . Rafaela Hillerbrand . Per Sandin . Martin Peterson -- Chapter 2. Levels of Uncertainty: Hauke Riesch -- Chapter 3.The Role of Feelings in Perceived Risk: Melissa L. Finucane -- Chapter 4. Sociology of Risk: Rolf Lidskog . Go¨ran Sundqvist -- Chapter 5. Risk and Responsibility: Ibo van de Poel . Jessica Nihle´n Fahlquist -- Index.
  note: edited by Sabine Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Game theory
  subject:
    topic: Quality control
  subject:
    topic: Reliability
  subject:
    topic: Industrial safety
  subject:
    topic: Economic theory
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
  subject:
    topic: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Technology
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
  identifier: 9789400754553
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5455-3
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    record creation date: 121116
    record change date: 20151204153229.0
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