LEADER 04978nam 2200637Ia 450 001 996202215903316 005 20221207233256.0 010 $a1-135-37115-6 010 $a1-280-40665-8 010 $a0-203-49896-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000253383 035 $a(EBL)170351 035 $a(OCoLC)475877661 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083573 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116379 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083573 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163415 035 $a(PQKB)10148612 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC170351 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL170351 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10057646 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL40665 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000253383 100 $a19950117d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRisk /$fJohn Adams 210 $aLondon [England] $a[Bristol, PA] $cUCL Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-85728-068-7 311 $a1-85728-067-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-223) and index. 327 $a1 Risk: an Introduction; 2 Risk and the Royal Society; ""Actual risk"": what is it?; Can risk be measured?; Exposure; The response to risk: risk compensation; Homo prudens and free will; Risk: an interactive phenomenon; Problems of measurement; Varieties or uncertainty; 3 Patterns in Uncertainty; The world's largest industry; Patterns in uncertainty; Myths of human nature; Divergent perspectives on environmental threats: an example of the cultural construction of risk; The four rationalities as contending paradigms 327 $aThe cultural construction of pollution Adding cultural filters to the risk thermostat; Groping in the dark; The Sydney Smith dilemma; 4 Error, Chance and culture; The conventional wisdom; Enter Homo aleatorius; Balancing behaviour; Types of error; Acceptability of risk; The efficacy of intervention; The importance of context; Scale, and voluntary versus involuntary risk; Error, chance and culture; 5 Measuring Risk; Not enough accidental deaths; What gets recorded?; Regression-to-mean and accident migration; Cultural filtering; Noise and bias; Off the road; Near misses; 6 Monetizing Risk 327 $aSome problems Contingent valuation; Death: the ultimate challenge; Cultural filters; Kakadu National Park: an example; Who wants to monetize risk?; 7 Roas Safety 1: Seat Belts; The UK seat belt law; Three postscripts; Cultural theory; Cultural filters; Introspection; 8 Road safety 2: More Filtering; Safe roads and dangerous countries; Safer vehicles?; Safer roads?; Safer road users?; A speculation; Bicycle helmets; The reaction; Motorcycle helmets; Alcohol and ignorance; The spike; Unsupportable claims; 9 A Large RIsk: The Greenhouse Effect; Alternative futures; The debate; Arguing in the dark 327 $aVogon economics and the hyperspatial bypass Tomorrow the world; An introspective postscript; 10 The Risk Society; Beck and cultural theory; Beck versus Wildavsky; Prescriptions; Professional disaster; The unimportance of being right; To avoid suffocation, keep away from children; Can better science resolve the debate?; 11 Can we Manage Risk Better?; Wishful thinking; Abstractions and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness; Complicating the theory - a little bit; The mad officials; So, can we manage risk better?; The advice of others; How to manage risk; References; Index 330 $aRisk compensation postulates that everyone has a 'risk thermostat' and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behavior that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains risk-taking behavior by the operation of cultural filters. It postulates that behavior is governed by the probable costs and benefits of alternative courses of action which are perceived through filters formed from all the previous incidents and associations in the risk-taker's life. 'Risk' should be of interest to many readers throughout the social sciences and in the world of industry, business, engineering, finance and public administration, since it deals with a fundamental part of human behavior that has enormous financial and economic implications. 606 $aRisk$xSociological aspects 606 $aRisk management$xSocial aspects 606 $aRisk-taking (Psychology) 615 0$aRisk$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aRisk management$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aRisk-taking (Psychology) 676 $a302/.12 700 $aAdams$b John$f1938-$0287390 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996202215903316 996 $aRisk$92296302 997 $aUNISA