Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action

by Carlo C. Jaeger, Ortwin Renn, Eugene A. Rosa, et al.

Book Overview

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty.

In this definitive volume, four of the world's leading risk researchers present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approaches to understanding and managing risk - the 'rational actor paradigm'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853837709
• ISBN13: 9781853837708
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"