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Handbook of Risk Theory

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction to Risk Theory
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    Chapter 2 A Panorama of the Philosophy of Risk
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    Chapter 3 The Concepts of Risk and Safety
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    Chapter 4 Levels of Uncertainty
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    Chapter 5 The Economics of Risk: A (Partial) Survey
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    Chapter 6 Interpretation of Forensic Evidence
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    Chapter 7 Risks and Scientific Responsibilities in Nanotechnology
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    Chapter 8 Risk and Risk-Benefit Evaluations in Biomedical Research
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    Chapter 9 Understanding and Governing Public Health Risks by Modeling
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    Chapter 10 Management of the Risks of Transport
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    Chapter 11 Risk and Spatial Planning
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    Chapter 12 Intergenerational Risks of Nuclear Energy
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    Chapter 13 Climate Change as Risk?
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    Chapter 14 Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Risk from Geophysical Hazards
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    Chapter 15 A Rational Approach to Risk? Bayesian Decision Theory
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    Chapter 16 A Philosophical Assessment of Decision Theory
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    Chapter 17 The Mismeasure of Risk
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    Chapter 18 Unreliable Probabilities, Paradoxes, and Epistemic Risks
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    Chapter 19 Paradoxes of Rational Choice Theory
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    Chapter 20 Multi-Attribute Approaches to Risk
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    Chapter 21 Real-Life Decisions and Decision Theory
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    Chapter 22 Social Influences on Risk Attitudes: Applications in Economics
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    Chapter 23 Risk Intelligence
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    Chapter 24 Risk Communication in Health
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    Chapter 25 Risk Perception and Societal Response
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    Chapter 26 The Role of Feelings in Perceived Risk
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    Chapter 27 Emotion, Warnings, and the Ethics of Risk Communication
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    Chapter 28 Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk
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    Chapter 29 Tools for Risk Communication
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    Chapter 30 Ethics and Risk
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    Chapter 31 Toward a Premarket Approach to Risk Assessment to Protect Children
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    Chapter 32 Moral Emotions as Guide to Acceptable Risk
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    Chapter 33 Risk and Virtue Ethics
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    Chapter 34 Risk and Trust
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    Chapter 35 Risk and Responsibility
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    Chapter 36 What Is a Fair Distribution of Risk?
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    Chapter 37 Intergenerational Risks
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    Chapter 38 The Precautionary Principle
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    Chapter 39 The Capability Approach in Risk Analysis
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    Chapter 40 Sociology of Risk
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    Chapter 41 Risk and Gender: Daredevils and Eco-Angels
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    Chapter 42 Risk and Soft Impacts
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    Chapter 43 Risk and Technology Assessment
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    Chapter 44 Risk Governance
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    Chapter 45 EU Risk Regulation and the Uncertainty Challenge
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    Chapter 46 Risk Management in Technocracy
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Chapter title
Introduction to Risk Theory
Chapter number 1
Book title
Handbook of Risk Theory
Published by
Springer Netherlands, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1433-5_1
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-071432-8, 978-9-40-071433-5
Authors

Prof. Sabine Roeser, Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand, Dr. Per Sandin, Dr. Martin Peterson, Sabine Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson

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Unknown 21 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 29%
Student > Master 5 24%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 5%
Unknown 9 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 2 10%
Social Sciences 2 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Other 4 19%
Unknown 10 48%