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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mathilde bourrier”
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  • Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics

    Social science perspectives

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Nathalie Brender, Claudine Burton-Jeangros ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions, aimed at mitigating the spread of disease in a globalized world. During a crisis, however, global health actions – including planning and organizing, communicating about risk, and cost–benefit evaluations – aren’t usually part of a single, integrated global response. Arguing that an uncoordinated approach can be challenged by ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Trapping Safety into Rules

    How Desirable or Avoidable is Proceduralization?

    by Mathilde Bourrier ...
    Rules and procedures are key features for a modern organization to function. It is no surprise to see them to be paramount in safety management. As some sociologists argue, routine and rule following is not always socially resented. It can bring people comfort and reduce anxieties of newness and uncertainty. Facing constant unexpected events entails fatigue and exhaustion. There is also no doubt ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Governing Risk in GM Agriculture

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Michael Baram ...
    This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture. It examines the evolution of policies intended to ensure the safety of GM crops and food products in the United States and Europe and the regulatory approaches and other social controls employed to protect human health, the environment, conventional farming and foods, and the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Decommissioning Aging Installations and Declining Technologies

    Burden or Inspiration?

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Safety Management
    This open-access brief tackles the idea, prevalent in some industrial sectors, that decommissioning, de-pollution and waste management are a necessary evil rather than a predictable phase of industry for which preparations can and should be made in advance. The brief forms the beginning of a conversation on the conditions under which current examples of decommissioning and phasing-out could help ... Read more

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  • Risk Communication for the Future

    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Read more

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  • Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects

    Dealing with uncertainties

    Edited by Markku Lehtonen, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Luis Aparicio ...
    The governance and evaluation of ‘megaprojects’ – that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations – is receiving increased attention. However, megaproject evaluation has hitherto largely adopted a linear-rationalist perspective to explain the frequent failure of such ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement

    The Nature of Communication

    Edited by Jeanette L. Drake, Yekaterina Y. Kontar, Gwynne S. Rife ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Perhaps just as perplexing as the biggest issues at the core of Earth science is the nature of communicating about nature itself. New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement: The Nature of Communication examines the processes of communication necessary in bridging the chasm between climate change and natural hazard knowledge and public opinion and policy. At this junction of science and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Digital Factory for Knowledge

    Production and Validation of Scientific Results

    Edited by Renaud Fabre, Alain Bensoussan, Lucille Colin, Marie Blanquart, Louki-Geronimo Richou ...
    This book explores how the technical upheavals of the 21st century have changed the structures and architecture of the creation, sharing and regulation of knowledge. From the new economic and technical models of production and dissemination of knowledge, the book deals with all new forms of valorisation. It also explains how the legislative deficit in the world and in Europe, around digital is ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

  • Safety Cultures, Safety Models

    Taking Stock and Moving Forward

    Edited by Claude Gilbert, Benoît Journé, Hervé Laroche, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carrying ... Read more

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  • A Short History of European Law

    The Last Two and a Half Millennia

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A Short History of European Law brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Ethical Engineer

    Contemporary Concepts and Cases

    by Robert McGinn ...
    An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studiesThe Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology transfer to privacy protection to whistle-blowing. Presenting key ethics concepts and real-life examples of engineering work, Robert McGinn illuminates the ethical dimension of engineering practice and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kenneth Minogue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook