Risk
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Part of Darwin College Lectures
- Editors:
- Layla Skinns, University of Cambridge
- Michael Scott, University of Cambridge
- Tony Cox, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: September 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521171977
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Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. In this book, prominent and eminent speakers from fields as diverse as statistics to classics, neuroscience to criminology, politics to astronomy, as well as speakers embedded in the media and in government, have put their ideas down on paper in a series of essays that broaden our understanding of the meaning of risk. The essays come from the prestigious Darwin College Lecture Series which, after twenty-five years, is one of the most popular public lecture series at the University of Cambridge. The risk lectures in 2010 were amongst the most popular yet and, in essay form, they make for a lively and engaging read for specialists and non-specialists alike.
Read more- An interdisciplinary approach to the topic of risk with no previous knowledge expected and deliberately written in accessible language
- A wide introduction to thinking about the topic of risk in many different fields
- Takes cutting edge scholarship from top academics to a wide target audience
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- Date Published: September 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521171977
- length: 202 pages
- dimensions: 248 x 175 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- contains: 38 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Layla Skinns, Michael Scott and Tony Cox
2. Quantifying uncertainty David Spiegelhalter
3. Decisions, risk and the brain John P. O'Doherty
4. Risk and government: the architectonics of blame avoidance Christopher Hood
5. Risk and the humanities: alea iacta est Mary Beard
6. Terrorism and counterterrorism: what is at risk? Lucia Zedner
7. Risk and natural catastrophes: the long view Mark Bailey
8. Risk in the context of (human-induced) climate change Robert Watson.
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