Forecasting, warning, and responding to transnational risks

by De Franco, Chiara Meyer, Christoph O.

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 285 p. : : il. ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230297845, 0230297846
oclc:on1079398247

Introduction: the challenges of prevention / Chiara de Franco and Christoph O. Meyer -- The coastline of the future: some limits on forecasting and prediction / Sir David Omand -- Epistemology of forecasting in international relations: knowing the difference between 'intelligence failure' and 'warning failure' / Jan Goldman -- FORESEC: lessons learnt from a pan-European security foresight project / Ville Brummer [y otros] -- Modelling transnational environmental risks: scenarios for decision support / Fabian Wagner -- Risk, uncertainty and the assessment of organised crime / Tom Vander Beken -- Mediatised warnings: late, wrong, yet indispensable? Lessons from climate change and civil war / Chiara de Franco and Christoph O. Meyer -- Do they listen? Communicating warnings: an intelligence practitioner's perspective / William Shapcott -- Responding to early flood warnings in the European Union / David Demeritt and Sebastien Nobert -- Dark secrets: face-work, organisational culture and disaster prevention / Marc S. Gerstein and Edgar H. Schein -- Transnational risk management: a business perspective / Corene Crossin and James Smither -- From the 'neurotic' to the 'rationalising' state…

Subjects

Catástrofes -- Evaluación de riesgos Dispositifs d'alarme Emergency management Évaluation du risque Guerra -- Prevención Natural disasters -- Risk assessment Prévention des catastrophes Prévention des conflits Risk -- Forecasting Risk -- Sociological aspects risk assessment Risque -- Prévision Sociología del riesgo War -- Prevention