Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation

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Bridget M. Hutter (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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Cambridge University Press
25 August 2011

Corporate governance & responsibilities

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organisations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This 2010 book shows how we can organise our social, organisational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. Contributors from a range of disciplines - including finance, history, law, management, political science, social psychology, sociology and disaster studies - consider threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities alongside social and organisational sources of resilience and security. These issues are introduced and discussed through a fascinating and diverse set of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy and the financial crisis. This is an important book for academics and policy makers who wish to understand the dilemmas generated in the anticipation and management of risks.

Edited by: Bridget M. Hutter (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781107402683
ISBN 10: 1107402689
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 August 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current dilemmas Bridget M. Hutter; Part II. Threat, Vulnerabilities and Insecurities: 2. Risk society and financial risk Clive Briault; 3. Before the sky falls down: a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of internet addresses Jeanette Hofmann; 4. Changing attitudes to risk? Managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain Peter Bartrip; 5. Public perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK Sally Lloyd-Bostock; 6. Colonised by risk. The emergence of academic risks in British higher education Michael Huber; Part III. Social, Organisational and Regulatory Sources of Resilience and Security: 7. Regulating resilience? Regulatory work in high-risk arenas Carl Macrae; 8. Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects: the Olympic Games Will Jennings and Martin Lodge; 9. Creating space for engagement? Lay membership in contemporary risk governance Alan Irwin and Kevin Jones; 10. Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research': the case of gene therapy Javier Lezaun; 11. Preparing for future crises: lessons from research Arjen Boin; 12. Conclusion: important themes and future research directions Bridget M. Hutter; References; Index.

Bridget M. Hutter is Professor of Risk Regulation and Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author of numerous publications on the subject of risk regulation and has an international reputation for her work on compliance, regulatory enforcement and business risk-management.

Reviews for Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation

'The semantics of risk is suddenly everywhere. More than ever there is an urgent need for clarification, professional engagement and sensitivity for the multi-faceted nature of the dilemmas surrounding risk regulation. This is exactly what Anticipating Risks and Organizing Risk Regulation offers the reader. I learnt a lot.' Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich and London School of Economics and Political Science Advance praise: 'This book, edited by one of the leading scholars of risk and regulation, moves us forward from the retrospective analysis of things gone wrong to anticipate new risks in a global world. The compelling examples of risk regulation and the complexity of regulatory effects are a crucial reality check for theorists, researchers, and regulators alike.' Diane Vaughan, Columbia University