Aaron Wildavsky: Searching for Safety

Cover: 9780912051185 | Searching for Safety | Aaron Wildavsky | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2017

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Beschreibung

Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world. Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer and exposes the high risk of avoiding change. The book covers a wide range, including how the human body, as well as plants, animals, and insects, cope with danger. Wildavsky asks whether piling on safety measures actually improves safety. While he agrees that society should sometimes try to prevent large-scale harm, he explains why a strategy of resilience-learning from error how to bounce back in better shape-is usually better. His intention is to shift the debate about risk from passive prevention of harm to an active search for safety. This book will be of special interest to those concerned with risk involving technology, health, safety, environmental protection, regulation, and more.

Über den Autor

Aaron Wildavsky (1930-1993) was considered one of the most innovative and prolific scholars in the field of political research and he was most famous for his role in developing the cultural theory of risk.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Jogger's Dilemma or What Should We Do When the Safe and the Dangerous are Inextricably Intertwined?

SECTION I: STRATEGIES

1. Trial and Error Versus Trial Without Error

2. Opportunity Benefits Versus Opportunity Risks

3. Richer Is Sicker Versus Richer Is Safer

4. Anticipation Versus Resilience

SECTION II: CONDITIONS

5. Nonhuman Life Forms Cope with Danger

6. Does Adding Safety Devices Increase Safety in Nuclear Power Plants? (with Elizabeth Nichols, and an appendix by Robert Budnitz)

7. The Battle Within: How the Human Body Defends Itself (with Dennis J. Coyle)

8. From Resilience to Anticipation: Why the Tort Law is Unsafe (with Daniel Polisar)

SECTION III: PRINCIPLES

9. Why Less is More: A Taxonomy of Error (with William R. Havender)

10. The Secret of Safety Lies in Danger

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780912051185
ISBN-10:	0912051183
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wildavsky, Aaron
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Aaron Wildavsky
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.05.2017
Gewicht:	0,39 kg

Artikel-ID: 121214872