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RSA Risk Commission


The Risk Commission aims to examine and contextualise risk in our modern society. In particular it is looking at all aspects of risk in childhood.

Project Website:

www.RSAriskcommission.org

Contact:

Rebecca Daddow, Project Co-ordinator
Email: rebecca.daddow@rsa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7451 6833

 

Detailed Information:

The Risk Commission has spent the last 13 months speaking with experts, attending lectures, conferences and seminars. We have researched the literature and current debates around the issue of risk. This work has raised a number of fundamental questions which are discussed further and being debated on the Commission's dedicated website.

 

Project Resources:

 

Articles and Other Literature:

An overview of risk
Marcus Trower, 2006. Risk and Enterprise
John Lloyd, Financial Times, 7th July 2006 - Bear facts of a paradox


Books:

The Risk Management Universe: A Guided Tour
David Hillson. BSI, 2006. 658.155 HIL

Risk in Social Science
Peter Taylor-Gooby and Jens Zinn. Oxford Uni Press, 2006. 302.12RIS

Resilience to Risk
Sean Cleary and Thierry Malleret. Human & Rousseau, 2006. 338.5CLE

Reckoning with risk: learning to live with uncertainty
Gerd Gigerenzer. Allen Lane, 2002. 153.43 GIG

The Perception of Risk
Paul Slovic. Earthscan, 2000.153.7 SLO

Anxiety in a risk society.
Iain Wilkinson. Routledge, 2001. 302.12 WIL

 


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