Risk (Häftad)
avBaruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany
ISBN: 9780199576203 - UTGIVEN: 201105We find risks everywhere-from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw[...]
Risk Communication (Häftad)
avM.Granger Morgan, Baruch Fischhoff, Ann Bostrom
ISBN: 9780521002561 - UTGIVEN: 200107People today must make decisions about many health, safety, and environmental risks. Nuclear power, HIV/AIDS, radon, vaccines, climate change, and emerging infectious diseases are just some issues that may face them in the news media, ballot box, or doctor's office. In order to make sound choices t[...]
Acceptable Risk (Häftad)
avBaruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic
ISBN: 9780521278928 - UTGIVEN: 1984-01A framework for making decisions about risks, with recommendations for research, public policy, and practice.[...]
Risk Analysis and Human Behaviour (Häftad)
avBaruch Fischhoff
ISBN: 9781849714433 - UTGIVEN: 201112The articles collected here are foundational contributions to integrating behavioural research and risk analysis. They include seminal articles on three essential challenges. One is ensuring effective two-way communication between technical experts and the lay public, so that risk analyses address l[...]
Counting Civilian Casualties (Pocket)
avTaylor B. (EDT) Seybolt, Jay D. (EDT) Aronson, Baruch (EDT) Fischhoff
ISBN: 9780199977314 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06A popular myth emerged in the late 1990s: in 1900, wars killed one civilian for every eight soldiers, while contemporary wars were killing eight civilians for every one soldier. The neat reversal of numbers was memorable, and academic publications and UN documents regularly cited it. The more it was[...]
