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  • The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century

    Late Lessons from Early Warnings

    Edited by Paul Harremoes, David Gee, Malcom MacGarvin, Andy Stirling, Jane Keys, Brian Wynne, Sofia Guedes Vaz ...
    The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or ... Read more

    $245.00 USD

  • Interfaces between Science and Society

    Edited by Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Sofia Guedes Vaz, Sylvia Tognetti ...
    The project of science has been to provide answers to questions about the world and how it works. Often, this lofty role has been characterised by a narrow and dogmatic scientific training, an unwillingness to communicate to differing stakeholder needs, a refusal to accept and to manage uncertainty, complexity and value commitments, and the reduction of knowledge assessment to colleague peer ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Automate This

    How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World

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  • Identity Theft and Fraud

    Evaluating and Managing Risk

    by Norm Archer, Susan Sproule, Yufei Yuan, Ken Guo, Junlian Xiang ...
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    Personal data is increasingly being exchanged and stored by electronic means, making businesses, organizations and individuals more vulnerable than ever to identity theft and fraud. This book provides a practical and accessible guide to identity theft and fraud using a risk management approach. It outlines various strategies that can be easily implemented to help prevent identity theft and fraud. ... Read more

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  • The American Way of Death Revisited

    by Jessica Mitford ...
    Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in ... Read more

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  • Freshwater Ecology

    Concepts and Environmental Applications

    by Walter K. Dodds ...
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  • Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication

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  • Dynamic Risk Assessment

    The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model

    by Stephen Asbury, Edmund Jacobs ...
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  • Practical Ethics In Public Administration

    by Dean Gueras, Charles Garofalo ...
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  • Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action

    by Carlo C. Jaeger, Thomas Webler, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
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  • Risk Management in Post-Trust Societies

    Edited by Ragnar E. Lofstedt ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st centuryAnna Jung, Director General, European Food Information CouncilProfessor Ragnar Löfstedt has once again produced a most interesting book on risk management and trust, well-based on theory and built on empirical findingsMikael Karlsson, President, Swedish Society for Nature ... Read more

    $54.99 USD