Risk Language And Power

Author : Jeffery T. Morris
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739170554
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Risk, Language, and Power written by Jeffery T. Morris and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk, Language, and Power explores discourse around the environmental risks of nanotechnology, making the case that the dominance in risk discourse of regulatory science is a limiting policy debate on environmental risks, and that specific initiatives should be undertaken to broaden debate not just on nanotechnology, but generally on the risks of new technologies. Morris argues that the treatment of environmental risk in public policy debates has failed for industrial chemicals, is failing for nanotechnology, and most certainly will fail for synthetic biology and other new technologies unless we change how we describe the impacts to people and other living things from the development and deployment of technology. However, Morris also contends that the nanotechnology case provides reason for optimism that risk can be given different, and better, treatment in environmental policy debates. Risk, Language, and Power proposes specific policy initiatives to advance a richer discourse around the environmental implications of emerging technologies. Morris believes that evidence of enriched environmental policy debates would be a decentering of language concerning risk by developing within discourse language and practice directed toward enriching the human and environmental condition.

Author : Jim McCormick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735617411
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Risk: How Intelligent Choices Will Make You More Successful--A Step-by-Step Guide written by Jim McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opportunity knocked. Did you answer the door? When you hear the knock again, what will you do? We face risks every day, in business, relationships and daily life. How we navigate those risks--whether we call them opportunity, adventure, or danger determines our course in life. Many of us realize that much of life has passed us by as we were protecting ourselves from the very chances that could have delivered challenge, wealth, and accomplishment. By discovering your personal Risk Quotient, learning to analyze opportunities with a fresh perspective, and implementing strategies that will change the way you make decisions, The Power of Risk will open you up to a life filled with possibility, fulfillment, and freedom. Utilizing research, years of corporate leadership, and thousands of successful client experiences, Jim McCormick brings his risk revolution to readers everywhere. Guided self-assessments and insightful discussions guarantee a change in attitude, skill set, and, ultimately, personal success. The Risk Revolution has begun.

Author : John Martyn Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317331966
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power written by John Martyn Chamberlain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters written by professional practitioners and social scientists from the UK, South America, Australia and Europe, the book offers readers an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of how modern medicine has transformed our understanding of both ourselves and the world around us, but in so doing has arguably failed to fully recognize and account for, its unintended and negative effects. This is an essential read for social scientists, practitioners and policymakers who want to better understand how they can develop new ways of thinking about how modern medicine can promote social goods and enhance public health.

Author : Wenyuan Li
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047163168X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Risk Assessment Of Power Systems written by Wenyuan Li and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Risk Assessment of Power Systems closes the gap between risk theory and real-world application. As a leading authority in power system risk evaluation for more than fifteen years and the author of a considerable number of papers and more than fifty technical reports on power system risk and reliability evaluation, Wenyuan Li is uniquely qualified to present this material. Following the models and methods developed from the author's hands-on experience, readers learn how to evaluate power system risk in planning, design, operations, and maintenance activities to keep risk at targeted levels."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Magnus Hörnqvist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135154406
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Risk, Power and the State written by Magnus Hörnqvist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power, the Foucauldian tradition – with its strands of discourse analysis, of governmentality studies, or of radical Deleuzian critique – suffers from a lack of clarification on key conceptual issues. Oriented around four case studies, the architecture of the book devolves upon the distinction between productive and repressive power. The first two studies focus on productive power: the management of long-term unemployment in the public employment service and cognitive-behavioural interventions in the prison service. Two further studies concern repressive interventions: the conditions of incarceration in the prison service and the activity of the customs service. These studies reveal that power, as conceptualised within the Foucauldian tradition, must be modified. A more complex notion of productive power is needed, which covers interventions that appeal to desires, and which govern both at a distance and at close range. Additionally, the simplistic paradigm of repressive power is called into question by the need to consider the organising role of norms and techniques that circumvent agency. Finally, it is argued, Foucault's concept of strategies – which accounts for the thick web of administrative directives, organisational routines, and techniques that simultaneously shape the behaviour of targeted individuals and members of the organisation – requires an organisational dimension that is often neglected in the Foucauldian tradition.

Author : Alexander Eydeland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471455873
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy and Power Risk Management written by Alexander Eydeland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-02-03 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Energy and Power Risk Management "Energy and Power Risk Management identifies and addresses the key issues in the development of the turbulent energy industry and the challenges it poses to market players. An insightful and far-reaching book written by two renowned professionals." -Helyette Geman, Professor of Finance University Paris Dauphine and ESSEC "The most up-to-date and comprehensive book on managing energy price risk in the natural gas and power markets. An absolute imperative for energy traders and energy risk management professionals." -Vincent Kaminski, Managing Director Citadel Investment Group LLC "Eydeland and Wolyniec's work does an excellent job of outlining the methods needed to measure and manage risk in the volatile energy market." -Gerald G. Fleming, Vice President, Head of East Power Trading, TXU Energy Trading "This book combines academic rigor with real-world practicality. It is a must-read for anyone in energy risk management or asset valuation." -Ron Erd, Senior Vice President American Electric Power

Author : Jeffery T. Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786613635945
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Risk, Language, and Power written by Jeffery T. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk, Language, and Power applies discourse analysis to public policy debates about nanotechnology, to explore how risk is used in language and practice to frame those debates. Morris argues that regulatory science by itself is inadequate to address risk concerns, and that public policy initiatives should be applied to broaden policy discourse around the environmental implications of emerging technologies.

Author : Lewis Acrelius Froman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Power: Books I and II written by Lewis Acrelius Froman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard J. Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135240051
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Portraits and Unofficial Counterportraits of At Risk" Students" written by Richard J. Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles fifth and sixth grade writers in a poor, culturally diverse, rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward. The big ideas of official and unofficial portraits are presented, followed by data and facets of the theoretical construct of counterportraits in each chapter, as a response to official portraits.

Author : Graeme Currie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135212759
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Public Services Management Critical written by Graeme Currie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a new way, challenging many old ideas in this field and presenting the debate of what ‘critical’ constitutes when applied to public services policy and management.