Anticipating risks and organising risk regulation

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index.

Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation : current dilemmas / Bridget M. Hutter -- Threat, vulnerabilities and insecurities. Risk society and financial risk / Clive Briault ; Before the sky falls down : a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of internet addresses / Jeanette Hofmann ; Changing attitudes to risk? : managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain / Peter Bartrip ; Public perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK / Sally Lloyd-Bostock ; Colonised by risk : the emergence of academic risks in British higher education / Michael Huber -- Social, organisational and regulatory sources of resilience and security. Regulating resilience? : regulatory work in high-risk arenas / Carl Macrae ; Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects : the Olympic Games / Will Jennings and Martin Lodge ; Creating space for engagement? : Lay membership in contemporary risk governance / Kevin E. Jones and Alan Irwin ; Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research' : the case of gene therapy / Javier Lezaun ; Preparing for future crises : lessons from research / Arjen Boin ; Conclusion : important themes and future research directions / Bridget M. Hutter.