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The social roots of risk : producing disasters, promoting resilience / Kathleen Tierney.

By: Material type: TextSeries: High reliability and crisis managementPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014Description: xiii, 301 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804772631 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804791397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302/.12 2 3
LOC classification:
  • HM1101 .T54 2014
Contents:
Risking more, losing more : thinking about risk and resilience -- Looking back : the evolution of how we talk about risk -- A different perspective : the social production of risk -- Culture and the production of risk -- Organizations, institutions, and the production of risk -- Communities and societies at risk -- Defining resilience in relation to risk -- Adaptive resilience in the face of disasters -- Looking ahead : a move toward safety, or more of the same?
List(s) this item appears in: Business Continuity Management | Integrated Emergency Management (IEM)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.

Risking more, losing more : thinking about risk and resilience -- Looking back : the evolution of how we talk about risk -- A different perspective : the social production of risk -- Culture and the production of risk -- Organizations, institutions, and the production of risk -- Communities and societies at risk -- Defining resilience in relation to risk -- Adaptive resilience in the face of disasters -- Looking ahead : a move toward safety, or more of the same?

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