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Living with risk : the geography of technological hazards
- Title
- Living with risk : the geography of technological hazards / by Susan L. Cutter.
- Author
- Cutter, Susan L.
- Publication
- London ; New York : E. Arnold ; New York : Routledge, Chapman and Hall [distributor], 1993.
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Details
- Description
- x, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Through the use of case studies, the book examines in detail the nature of a variety of technological hazards, including chemical hazards, hazardous waste, and nuclear waste. Cutter argues that technological risks and hazards are products of failures in the political, social and economic systems that govern the use of technology just as much as they are failures in the technological systems themselves.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-207) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The nature and character of technological hazards. What are technological hazards? Diversity and classification. Geography matters. Old versus new hazards. Establishing a new scientific 'ethos' of risk. Contested views -- 2. Scare of the week -- Risk perception and behaviour. What is risk perception? Whose perceptions are we measuring? Factors that influence risk perception. Perception -- behaviour linkages. Politicization of risk -- 3. Tragic choices. How much is a life worth? Identifying risks and hazards. Who's right: the experts or the public? The regulator's dilemma -- 4. Managing technological hazards. Management systems. Constraints on management systems. Techniques -- 5. Winds of death. The production of chemical hazards. Historical and spatial evolution of the chemical industry. Risk and hazards assessment. Airborne toxic releases. Contexts of risk -- 6. The global dumping ground. Affluence breeds effluence. Risk burdens. Where does hazardous waste go? Transboundary trade. Who's at risk? -- 7. Fire in the rain. Atoms for peace? Ionizing radiation. The geography of nuclear hazards. Accidents happen. Reducing nuclear threats. Apocalypse now or later? -- 8. Living with risks. From case studies to theory. Revisionist views.
- ISBN
- 0340529873
- 9780340529874
- LCCN
- 93003294
- OCLC
- ocm27769646
- 27769646
- SCSB-1991509
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library