Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation

A multi-disciplinary 2010 book that focuses on how social, organisational and policy systems manage the anticipation of risks in contemporary societies.

Bridget M. Hutter (Edited by)

9781107402683, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 July 2011

320 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg

Review of the hardback: 'This book, edited by one of the leading scholars of risk and regulation, moves us forward from the retrospective analysis of things gone wrong to anticipate new risks in a global world. The compelling examples of risk regulation and the complexity of regulatory effects are a crucial reality check for theorists, researchers, and regulators alike.' Diane Vaughan, Columbia University

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organisations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This 2010 book shows how we can organise our social, organisational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. Contributors from a range of disciplines - including finance, history, law, management, political science, social psychology, sociology and disaster studies - consider threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities alongside social and organisational sources of resilience and security. These issues are introduced and discussed through a fascinating and diverse set of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy and the financial crisis. This is an important book for academics and policy makers who wish to understand the dilemmas generated in the anticipation and management of risks.

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Introduction: 1. Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current dilemmas Bridget M. Hutter
Part II. Threat, Vulnerabilities and Insecurities: 2. Risk society and financial risk Clive Briault
3. Before the sky falls down: a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of internet addresses Jeanette Hofmann
4. Changing attitudes to risk? Managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain Peter Bartrip
5. Public perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK Sally Lloyd-Bostock
6. Colonised by risk. The emergence of academic risks in British higher education Michael Huber
Part III. Social, Organisational and Regulatory Sources of Resilience and Security: 7. Regulating resilience? Regulatory work in high-risk arenas Carl Macrae
8. Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects: the Olympic Games Will Jennings and Martin Lodge
9. Creating space for engagement? Lay membership in contemporary risk governance Alan Irwin and Kevin Jones
10. Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research': the case of gene therapy Javier Lezaun
11. Preparing for future crises: lessons from research Arjen Boin
12. Conclusion: important themes and future research directions Bridget M. Hutter
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Corporate governance [KJR], Business strategy [KJC], Business & management [KJ]