Forecasting, warning and responding to transnational risks

Forecasting, warning and responding to transnational risks

by De Franco, Chiara Meyer, Christoph O.

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Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks. It challenges conventional accounts of 'failures' of warning and preventive policy in both the academic literature and public debate. What does it take to recognise and prevent hazards with international causes and consequences? How can we handle the risks related to financial instability, terrorism, pandemic…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Forecasting, warning and responding to transnational risks / edited by Chiara de Franco, Christoph O. Meyer.

Summary

Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks. It challenges conventional accounts of 'failures' of warning and preventive policy in both the academic literature and public debate. What does it take to recognise and prevent hazards with international causes and consequences? How can we handle the risks related to financial instability, terrorism, pandemics, air pollution, flooding and climate change? The book brings together scholars and senior practitioners from different areas to conceptualise and empirically study the interlinked problems of forecasting, warning and mobilising preventive action. Contributors comment on key problems such as uncertainty, silo-mentality, spotting weak-signals, cultures of blame, conflicts of interest and divergent risk perceptions, but are also sensitive to differences between actors and types of risk. The overall thrust is to challenge both technocratic and popularised accounts of the warning-response problem. Successful prevention or mitigation involves difficult cognitive, normative and political judgements. Whilst these difficulties cannot be eliminated, contributors suggest ways in which organisations, journalists, scientists and decision-makers can at least mitigate them.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place of Publication:Basingstoke
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Epublication based on: ISBN 9780230297845, 2011.

The Physical Object

  • Description:Online-Datei (304 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780230316911, 0230316913, 9780230297845, 0230297846
  • DOI:10.1057/9780230316911
  • oclc:ocn762204234
  • Dewey Decimal:363.34525

Subjects

Elektronisches Buch -- Formschlagwort Emergency management Évaluation du risque Globalization international relations Risk -- Forecasting risk assessment Risque -- Prévision Social impact of disasters

Writers

De Franco, Chiara Meyer, Christoph O.

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