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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






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






Risk Governance(1st Edition)
Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World (Earthscan Risk in Society)
by Ortwin Renn
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-84407-291-0, ISBN: 1-84407-291-6

"'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. The skill with which he builds practical recommendations from solid science is unprecedented.'Thomas Dietz, Dire ..."






Risk Governance(1st Edition)
Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World (Earthscan Risk in Society)
by Ortwin Renn, A. Barrie Pittock
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-84407-292-7, ISBN: 1-84407-292-4

"'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. The skill with which he builds practical recommendations from solid science is unprecedented.'Thomas Dietz, Dire ..."






International Risk Governance Council Bookes Ser.
Global Risk Governance : Concept and Practice Using the IRGC Framework 1
by Ortwin Renn, Katherine D. Walker
370 Pages, Published 2008 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-6799-0, ISBN: 1-4020-6799-2

"David. E. Slavin. A. Better. Platform. for. Global. Risk. Debates. Today there is a growing public fascination with risk. Politicians, protesters, and pundits use the term and its supporting data, in loose and diverging ways. Often these data are used creatively by people who wish to take opposing positions about a technology, its uses or social and environmental impact. This battle of ideology can make it very hard for sections of ..."






Risk Governance
Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
by Ortwin Renn
Published 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4356-5748-9, ISBN: 1-4356-5748-9






Earthscan Risk in Society Ser.
Risk Governance : Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
by Ortwin Renn
Published 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-281-75274-1, ISBN: 1-281-75274-6






Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action(1st Edition)
(Earthscan Risk in Society)
by Carlo C. Jaeger, Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler, Eugene A. Rosa
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-85383-770-8, ISBN: 1-85383-770-9

"Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty. In this definitive volume, four of the world's leading risk researchers present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approaches to understanding and managing risk - the 'rational actor pa ..."






Corporate Environmentalism in a Global Economy(Updated)
Societal Values in International Technology Transfer (Praeger Series in Political)
by Halina Szejnwald Brown, Ortwin Renn, Patrick Derr, Allen L. White, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1993 by Praeger
ISBN-13: 978-0-89930-802-9, ISBN: 0-89930-802-3

"Brown and her colleagues offer an unprecedented analysis of how multinational corporations and developing countries manage, in the face of differing values, to relate as each proceeds in the interest of particular development objectives. Through three case studies involving Du Pont Agrichemical, Occidental Chemical, and Xerox and the countries of India and Thailand, the authors illustrate how the differing values of the host country and ..."






Expert Judgement and Expert Systems
(Nato a S I Series Series III, Computer and Systems Sciences)
by Jeryl L. Mumpower, Lawrence D. Phillips, Ortwin Renn
Hardcover, 361 Pages, Published 1987 by Springer Verlag
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-17986-5, ISBN: 0-387-17986-0






The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions(1st Edition)
by Ortwin Renn, Frank Ulmer, Anna Deckert
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Academic Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-819515-4, ISBN: 0-12-819515-0

"The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions provides a conceptual and empirical approach to stakeholder and citizen involvement in the ongoing energy transition conversation, focusing on projects surrounding energy conversion and efficiency, reducing energy demand, and using new forms of renewable energy sources. Sections review and contrast different approaches to citizen involvement, discuss the challenges of inclusive part ..."






Ethnic Conflicts and Civil Society(1st Edition)
Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe (Routledge Revivals)
by Andreas Klinke, Ortwin Renn, Jean-Paul Lehners
Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-93552-5, ISBN: 1-138-93552-2

"Published in 1997. After the collapse of the communist system, the political systems in Eastern Europe were unable to cope with increasing tensions between ethnic majorities and minorities. These tensions led to violent ethnic conflicts and civil wars, in particular in former Yugoslavia. In this phase of transition and nation-(re)building, ethnic groups strove for more political autonomy and even territorial secession. The newly indepen ..."






Ethnic Conflicts and Civil Society(1st Edition)
Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe (Routledge Revivals)
by Andreas Klinke, Ortwin Renn, Jean-Paul Lehners
Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-62593-8, ISBN: 1-138-62593-0

"Published in 1997. After the collapse of the communist system, the political systems in Eastern Europe were unable to cope with increasing tensions between ethnic majorities and minorities. These tensions led to violent ethnic conflicts and civil wars, in particular in former Yugoslavia. In this phase of transition and nation-(re)building, ethnic groups strove for more political autonomy and even territorial secession. The newly indepen ..."






International Science and Technology Education(1st Edition)
Exploring Culture, Economy and Social Perceptions (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)
by Ortwin Renn, Andreas Hohlt, Dorothea Taube, Nicole C. Karafyllis
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-50681-7, ISBN: 1-138-50681-8

"Education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is crucial for taking advantage of the prospects of new scientific discoveries initiating or promoting technological changes, and managing opportunities and risks associated with innovations. This book explores the emerging perspectives and methodologies of STEM education and its relationship to the cultural understanding of science and technology in an international c ..."






Ethnic Conflicts and Civil Society(1st Edition)
Proposals for a New Era in Eastern Europe
by Andreas Klinke, Ortwin Renn, Jean-Paul Lehners
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-72227-9, ISBN: 1-138-72227-8

"This title was first published in 2000:  The papers presented in this volume are based on the discussions of a workshop which asked: how can ethnic and political cooperation be accomplished in ethnically and politically heterogeneous countries after the collapse of the communist regimes which left a void for nationalist and even chauvinist movements? The objectives are: to promote a better understanding of the contemporary "ethnic" conf ..."






Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations(Reprint)
by Preben Hempel Lindøe, Michael Baram, Ortwin Renn
Paperback, 452 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-51526-0, ISBN: 1-107-51526-2

"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 their efforts to assess and prevent major accidents and improve safety performance offshore. Presented in three parts, the volume begins with a review of the technical, l ..."






International Science and Technology Education(1st Edition)
Exploring Culture, Economy and Social Perceptions (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)
by Ortwin Renn, Andreas Hohlt, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Dorothea Taube
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-88737-4, ISBN: 1-138-88737-4

"Education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is crucial for taking advantage of the prospects of new scientific discoveries initiating or promoting technological changes, and managing opportunities and risks associated with innovations. This book explores the emerging perspectives and methodologies of STEM education and its relationship to the cultural understanding of science and technology in an international c ..."






International Science and Technology Education
Exploring Culture, Economy and Social Perceptions
by Ortwin Renn, Dorothea Taube, Nicole Karafyllis, Andreas Hohlt
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Taylor And Francis
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-88738-1, ISBN: 1-138-88738-2






Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
by Michael Baram, Ortwin Renn, Preben Hempel Lindøe, Prebeen Hempel Lindoe
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02554-7, ISBN: 1-107-02554-0

"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 their efforts to assess and prevent major accidents and improve safety performance offshore. Presented in three parts, the volume begins with a review of the technical, l ..."






Political Participation in France and Germany
by Oscar W. Gabriel, Silke I. Keil, Eric Kerrouche, Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, Jürgen Bauknecht, Björn Egner, Kristina Faden-Kuhn, Christophe Premat, Ortwin Renn, Emmanuel Rivat, Ecpr Press
Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2013 by Ecpr Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-907301-83-4, ISBN: 1-907301-83-6

"How do France and Germany compare in the world of participatory political communities? This volume sets out an impressive historical, theoretical and institutional framework for a comprehensive, comparative and empirical analysis of the forms, patterns, trends and determinants of citizen participation in two of Europe's largest democracies. Written by an international team of political scientists, it starts with an outline of the partic ..."



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