تحميل...
Risk /
"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 crimi...
| مؤلفون آخرون: | , , |
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| التنسيق: | Printed Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| منشور في: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| سلاسل: | The Darwin College lectures ;
24 |
| الموضوعات: | |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Cover image |
جدول المحتويات:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.