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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Risk
  name:
    name part: Skinns, Layla.
  name:
    name part: Scott, Michael
    name part: 1981-
  name:
    name part: Cox, Tony
    name part: 1941-
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: xii, 189 pages : illustrations
  abstract: "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. After twenty-five years, the prestigious Darwin College Lectures are 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"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: 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.
  note: edited by Layla Skinns, Michael Scott and Tony Cox.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Risk
    topic: Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Risk perception
  subject:
    topic: Risk assessment
  classification: HM1101 .R548 2011eb
  classification: 302/.12
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Darwin College lectures ; 24
  identifier: 9780521171977 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781139115230 (e-book)
  identifier: 2011019857
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 110509
    record change date: 20250816204814.1
    record identifier: in00002719313