TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skinns,Layla
AU  - Scott,Michael
AU  - Cox,Tony
TI  - Risk
T2  - Darwin College lectures
SN  - 9780511735950 (ebook)
AV  - HM1101 .R548 2011
U1  - 302/.12 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Risk
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Risk perception
KW  - Risk assessment
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Introduction / Layla Skinns, Michael Scott and Tony Cox -- 2. Quantifying uncertainty / David Spiegelhalter -- 3. Decisions, risk and the brain / John P. O'Doherty -- 4. Risk and government: the architectonics of blame avoidance / Christopher Hood -- 5. Risk and the humanities: Alea iacta est / Mary Beard -- 6. Terrorism and counterterrorism: what is at risk? / Lucia Zedner -- 7. Risk and natural catastrophes: the long view / Mark Bailey -- 8. Risk in the context of (human-induced) climate change / Robert Watson
N2  - Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. In this book, prominent and eminent speakers from fields as diverse as statistics to classics, neuroscience to criminology, politics to astronomy, as well as speakers embedded in the media and in government, have put their ideas down on paper in a series of essays that broaden our understanding of the meaning of risk. The essays come from the prestigious Darwin College Lecture Series which, after twenty-five years, is one of the most popular public lecture series at the University of Cambridge. The risk lectures in 2010 were amongst the most popular yet and, in essay form, they make for a lively and engaging read for specialists and non-specialists alike
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511735950
ER  -