Social Contours of Risk: Volume II: Risk Analysis, Corporations and the Globalization of Risk

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field.

Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk i...