Uncertainty and risk : multidisciplinary perspectives /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan,
2008.
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| Series: | Earthscan risk and society series.
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Table of Contents:
- Setting the scene
- Introduction / Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson
- The many faces and masks of uncertainty / Michael Smithson
- Adopting orphans : uncertainty and other neglected aspects of complex problems / Gabriele Bammer
- More than a cabinet of curiosities : disciplinary and practice perspectives on uncertainty
- When action can't wait : investigating infectious disease outbreaks / Aileen J. Plant
- Uncertainty and religion : ten provisional theses / Stephen Pickard
- Uncertainty in the physical sciences : how big? how small? is it actually there at all? / Stephen J. Buckman
- Statistics : an essential tool for model citizens / Robyn G. Attewell
- A philosopher's guide to probability / Alan Hájek
- Musical improvisation, creativity and uncertainty / John Mackey
- Uncertainty as a creative force in visual art / Sasha Grishin
- Historians and disputes over uncertainty / Ann Curthoys
- Approaches to uncertain futures / Kate Delaney
- Embracing social uncertainties with complex systems science / Pascal Perez
- Heroin : injected with uncertainty / Alison Ritter
- Political practice : uncertainty, ethics and outcomes / Michael Moore
- Smoke and mirrors : managing uncertainty in the public health sector / Liz Furler
- Economists and uncertainty / John Quiggin
- Psychology's ambivalent view of uncertainty / Michael Smithson
- Uncertainty in decision-making : intelligence as a solution / Steve Longford
- Emergency management thrives on uncertainty / John Handmer
- Uncertainty, complexity and environment / Stephen Dovers ... [et al.]
- Uncertainty, terrorism and law enforcement / Michael McFadden, Rod Lyon and Roy Pinsker
- Certainty as illusion : the nature and purpose of uncertainty in the law / Judith S. Jones
- Unifying diversity
- The nature of uncertainty / Gabriele Bammer, Michael Smithson and the Goolabri Group
- Uncertainty metaphors, motives and morals / Michael Smithson, Gabriele Bammer and the Goolabri Group
- Coping and managing under uncertainty / Michael Smithson, Gabriele Bammer and the Goolabri Group
- Implications for risk assessment and management
- Coping with deep uncertainty : challenges for environmental assessment and decision-making / Roger E. Kasperson
- Risk, uncertainty and social controversy : from risk perception and communication to public engagement / Nick Pidgeon.