"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 ..."
Cross-Cultural Risk Perception A Survey of Empirical Studies (Risk, Governance and Society) by OrtwinRenn, Bernd Rohrmann Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2000 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-7747-4, ISBN: 0-7923-7747-8
"Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies o ..."
"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 par ..."
"The rapid growth of the world population - nearly six-fold over the last hundred years - combined with the rising number of technical installations especially in the industrialized countries has lead to ever tighter and more strained living spaces on our planet. Because ofthe inevitable processes oflife, man was at first an exploiter rather than a careful preserver of the environment. Environmental awareness with the intention to conser ..."
Zum politischen Umgang mit Risiko ein integratives Konzept zur Wahrnehmung, Bewertung, Klassifikation und zum Management von Risiken ; Studie der Akademie für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Baden-Württemberg by Andreas Klinke, OrtwinRenn Unbekannter Einband, 59 Pages, Published 2002 by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ISBN-13: 978-3-89892-069-8, ISBN: 3-89892-069-0
"Erwin Teufel. Für eine Zukunft in Solidarität und Gerechtigkeit. Wort des Rates
der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland und der Deutschen ... Teufel, Erwin (
Hg.), Was hält die moderne Gesellschaft zusammen?, Frankfurt/M. 1996. Walzer
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"Technik- und innovationsfeindlich sei die deutsche Gesellschaft, und besonders die Gentechnik stoße hierzulande auf eine geradezu irrationale Ablehnung, behaupten zumindest manche Politiker. Aber sind die Deutschen wirklich solch strikte Gegner der Gentechnik, wie ihnen Kritiker gerne unterstellen? Ein Team von Wissenschaftlern unter Federführung der Akademie für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Stuttgart räumt mit diesem Vorurteil auf. Ihr ..."
The potential of regional foresight final report of the STRATA-ETAN Expert Group: "Mobilising the regional foresight potential for an enlarged European Union - an essential contribution to strengthen the strategic basis of the European Research Area (ERA)" by OrtwinRenn, Joseph Meirion Thomas, European Commission 39 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-13: 978-92-894-4669-3, ISBN: 92-894-4669-2