Accident and Design: Contemporary Debates in Risk Management

Abstract

Anticipation in risk management - a stich in time...? Anticipation versus reliance, Christopher Hood, David Jones Anticipating the risk posed by natural perils, David Jones Hazard engineering, David Blockley Resilience, flexibility and diversity in managing the risks of technologies, David Collingridge. Absolution, liability and blame - pointing the finger: Absolutism versus blame, Christopher Hood, david Jones Criminal law, blame and risk: the case of corporate manslaughter, Celia Wells The problem of blame, Tom Horlick-Jones Blame, punishment and risk management, A. Neil Johnston. Quantitative risk assessment and risk management - faith in figures: The extent to which statistics are signs from God, Christopher Hood, David Jones Quantitative risk assessment and decisions about risk: an essential input into the decision process, A.V. Cohen Limits to the mathematical modelling of disasters, B. Toft. Designing institutions - a house of cards? The feasibility of institutional design in risk management, Christopher Hood, David Jones Risk and disaster: the role of communications breakdown in plane crashes and business failure, David Weir Criteria for the design of hazard mitigation instructions, Edmund Penning-Rowsell. Counting the cost: Risk reduction, but at what price? Christopher Hood, David Jones Is safety a by-product of quality management, Tom Horlick-Jones Risk management: an economist's approach, Sir Christopher Foster. Participation in risk management decisions: To what extent is risk management best left to experts, Christopher Hood, David Jones technocracy, democracy, secrecy and error, Nick Pidgeon Risk management, post-normal science and extended peer communities, Silvio O. Funtowicz, Jerome R. Ravetz Exploring the role of civic science in risk management, Timothy O'Riordan. The regulatory target - crying over spilt milk: Should regulation be targeted on physical products or institutional processes, Christopher Hood, David Jones Risk and emerging technology: the case of process-based regulation of biotechnology in Europe, Simon Shohet. Conclusion - learning from your desk lamp: Homeostatic versus collaborationist approaches to risk management, Christopher Hood, David Jones When extremes meet: sprat versus shark in public risk management, Christopher Hood.