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Safe or Not Safe
Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food
by Paul Pechan, Ortwin Renn, Allan Watt, Ingemar Pongratz
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4899-9301-4, ISBN: 1-4899-9301-0

"Based on an EU workshop at the end of 2005, the book discusses risk and our food supply. The introductory chapter will discuss all aspects of risk and how it applies to food, from risk classification to risk management. Following a discussion of risk, the authors will present three different case studies that will emphasize the following issues:• What do we want as individuals, as a society• What is the political context of the risk dis ..."






Safe or Not Safe
Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food
by Paul Pechan, Ortwin Renn, Ingemar Pongratz, Allan Watt
Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 2011 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-7867-7, ISBN: 1-4419-7867-4

"Based on an EU workshop at the end of 2005, the book discusses risk and our food supply. The introductory chapter will discuss all aspects of risk and how it applies to food, from risk classification to risk management. Following a discussion of risk, the authors will present three different case studies that will emphasize the following issues:• What do we want as individuals, as a society• What is the political context of the risk dis ..."






Safe Or Not Safe
Deciding What Risks to Accept In Our Environment and Food
by Paul Pechan, Ortwin Renn, Allan Watt, Ingemar Pongratz
145 Pages, Published 2011 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-7868-4, ISBN: 1-4419-7868-2

"Chapter. 3. Chemical. Contaminants. in. Food. Ingemar Pongratz, Katarina Pettersson, and Malin Hedengran Faulds. 1. Why. Are. We. Writing. About. This. Book. In Western societies today, the issue of food consumption has evolved from a relatively short chain of trading between producer and consumer to a complex chain of different parties. Today, food consumption includes large-scale production, time-efficient handling, transport, an ..."






Beyond the Coal Rush
A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy?
by James Goodman, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Linda Connor, Devleena Ghosh, Kanchi Kohli, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Manju Menon, Katja Mueller, Tom Morton, Rebecca Pearse, Ortwin Renn, Stuart Rosewarne
Published 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-78680-5, ISBN: 1-108-78680-4

""Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions."






Ethnic Conflicts and Civil Society
Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe
by Andreas Klinke, Ortwin Renn, Jean-Paul Lehners
283 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-429-86066-9, ISBN: 0-429-86066-8

"Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe Andreas Klinke, Ortwin Renn, Jean- Paul Lehners ... publication of the old believers Russians community from Romania Dumitriu-Seuleanu, Carmen 1995: “You lied the people by TV”, a study about ..."






Beyond the Coal Rush
A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy?
by James Goodman, Linda Connor, Devleena Ghosh, Kanchi Kohli, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Manju Menon, Katja Mueller, Tom Morton, Rebecca Pearse, Stuart Rosewarne, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ortwin Renn
Hardcover, Published 2020 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-47982-0, ISBN: 1-108-47982-0

"Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, focusing specifically on how campaigners are trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia. Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how loca ..."






Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
by Preben Hempel Lindøe, Michael Baram, Ortwin Renn
Digital, Published by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-45394-4, ISBN: 1-107-45394-1

"This book evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. It provides an interdisciplinary approach with legal, technological and sociological perspectives on efforts to assess and prevent major accidents and improve safety performance. Presented in three parts, it begins with a review of the factors involved in designing, implem ..."






Ethnic Conflicts and Civil Society
Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe: Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe
by Andreas Klinke, Ortwin Renn, Jean-Paul Lehners
300 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-75875-8, ISBN: 1-351-75875-6

"1994: Konfliktsteuerung durch Vereinte Nationen und KSZE, Frankfurt a.M., pp. 108-124 MEYER, Berthold / MOLTMANN, Bernhard (eds.) 1994: Konfliktsteuerung durch Vereinte Nationen und KSZE, Frankfurt a.M. NOHLEN, Dieter 1989: Kommunalismus, in: Nohlen, Dieter (ed.) 1989: Pipers Worterbuch zur Politik (Politikwissenschaft. Theorien - Methoden - Begriffe; edited by Dieter Nohlen and Rainer-Olaf Schultze), Vol. 1, Miinchen, p. 434 NZZ f ..."






International Science and Technology Education
Exploring Culture, Economy and Social Perceptions
by Ortwin Renn, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Andreas Hohlt, Dorothea Taube
272 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-50020-9, ISBN: 1-317-50020-2

"The research group was moderated by Ortwin Renn (chair) and Nicole C. Karafyllis (co-chair) and supported by a scientific team of young researchers, Dorothea Taube and Andreas Hohlt. The editors would like to thank the contributors to this book, all team members who helped to finalize this book, organize the workshops and the many group meetings, and in particular the directors and administrators of the BBAW for their continuous an ..."






International Science and Technology Education
Exploring Culture, Economy and Social Perceptions
by Ortwin Renn, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Andreas Hohlt, Dorothea Taube
272 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-50021-6, ISBN: 1-317-50021-0

"Schreiner, Camilla and Svein Sjøberg (2007): Science Education and Youth's Identity Construction: Two Incompatible Projects? In: The Re-emergence of Values in the Science Curriculum, edited by Deborah Corrigan, Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam. Science Partnership Programme (2013): The Official Website of Science Partnership Programme. Available from http://www.jst.go.jp/cpse/spp/ [Accessed 8 Septembe ..."






The Risk Society Revisited(Reprint)
Social Theory and Risk Governance
by Eugene A. Rosa, Aaron Mccright, Ortwin Renn
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2015 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-0259-2, ISBN: 1-4399-0259-3

"Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In "The Risk Society Revisited, " Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an integrated theory of risk and governance.The authors examine our sociological understanding of risk and how we reconcile modern human conditions with our handling of risk in our quest for im ..."






The Risk Society Revisited
Social Theory and Risk Governance
by Ortwin Renn, Aaron Mccright, Eugene Rosa
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-0260-8, ISBN: 1-4399-0260-7






Environmental Standards
Scientific Foundations and Rational Procedures of Regulation with Emphasis on Radiological Risk Management
by Klaus Pinkau, Ortwin Renn
394 Pages, Published 2013 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-4757-2797-5, ISBN: 1-4757-2797-6

"Scientific Foundations and Rational Procedures of Regulation with Emphasis on Radiological Risk Management Klaus Pinkau, Ortwin Renn. participated in writing the ,seed text" to section 5.4, and Ernst Mohr (Kiel) contributed to Section 6.2.1 by a lecture and a manuscript. Special thanks are also due to Ludger Honnefelder (Bonn), Albrecht Kellerer (Munich), Lutz von Rosenstiel (Munich) and Martin Weber (Kiel) who provided written com ..."






Earthscan Risk in Society Ser.
Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action
by Carlo C. Jaeger, Thomas Webler, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn
320 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-20309-3, ISBN: 1-134-20309-8

"We are especially indebted to Almut Beck, Robert Brulle, Tom Dietz, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Riley Dunlap, Ottmar Edenhofer, William F. Freudenburg, Silvio Funtovicz, Daniel Jackson, Valerie Jenness, Ragnar Löfstedt, Bernd Kasemir, Allan Mazur, Aaron McCright, Claudia Pahl, Kristin Shrader- Frechette, Paul Stern, James F. Short, Jr., JerryRavetz, Steve Rayner and Matthias Wächter for their help, encouragement and critical comments. Moreov ..."






Earthscan Risk in Society Ser.
Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action
by Ortwin Renn, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Webler, Carlo C. Jaeger
320 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-20302-4, ISBN: 1-134-20302-0

"Annual Review of Sociology 19:375–399. Coase, R.H. 1937. “The Nature of the Firm.” Economica 4:386–405. Cole, B. and Gealt, A. 1989. Art of the Western World: from Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism. New York: Summit Books. Coleman, J.S. 1990. Foundations of Social Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Collins, R. 1988. Theoretical Sociology. NewYork: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Collins, R. 1994. Four Sociological Traditi ..."






Cross-Cultural Risk Perception
A Survey of Empirical Studies
by Ortwin Renn, Bernd Rohrmann
242 Pages, Published 2013 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-4757-4891-8, ISBN: 1-4757-4891-4

"Center for Risk Research, Stockholm School of Economics. Sjöberg,L. 1996. A discussion of the limitations of the psychometric and cultural theory approaches to risk perception. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 68, 219–225. Sjöberg,L. 1997. Explaining risk perception: An empirical evaluation of cultural theory. Risk Decision and Policy, 2, 113–130. Slovic, P. 1987. Perception of risk. Science, 236 , 280–285. Slovic, P.1991. Beyond num ..."






Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action
by Ortwin Renn, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Webler, Carlo C. Jaeger
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-306-11739-5, ISBN: 1-306-11739-9






The Risk Society Revisited
Social Theory and Risk Governance
by Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, Aaron Mccright
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2013 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-0258-5, ISBN: 1-4399-0258-5

"Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In The Risk Society Revisited, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an integrated theory of risk and governance. The authors examine our sociological understanding of risk and how we reconcile modern human conditions with our handling of risk in our quest for impr ..."






Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
by Preben Hempel Lindøe, Michael Baram, Ortwin Renn
Printed Access Code, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-139-19830-1, ISBN: 1-139-19830-0

"This book evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. It provides an interdisciplinary approach with legal, technological and sociological perspectives on efforts to assess and prevent major accidents and improve safety performance. Presented in three parts, it begins with a review of the factors involved in designing, implem ..."






Risk Governance
Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
by Ortwin Renn
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-84977-244-0, ISBN: 1-84977-244-4



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