Risk: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Risk: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780199576203

ISBN-10: 0199576203

ISBN-13: 9780199576203

Edition: 2011

Authors: Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany

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Risks are everywhere. They come from many sources, including crime, diseases, accidents, terror, climate change, finance, and intimacy. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction Fischhoff and Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities to show what all risks have in common. Do we care about losing money, health, reputation, or peace of mind? How much do we care about things happening now or in the future? To ourselves or to others? All risks require thinking hard about what matters to us before we make decisions about them based on past experience, scientific knowledge, and future uncertainties. Using conceptual frameworks such as decision…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 4.61" wide x 6.81" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Baruch Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Department of Engineering and Public Policy.



Acknowledgements


List of illustrations


List of tables


Introduction



Risk decisions



Defining risk



Analysing risk



Making risk decisions



Risk perception



Risk communication



Risk, culture, and society


Further reading


Index