Download or read book Private Risks and Public Dangers written by Sue Scott and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers selected from the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society. Most of the papers fall into the broad theme of risk and danger, and the public response to these in a multiplicity of modes of regulation and surveillance.
Download or read book Private Risks and Public Dangers written by Stephen Platt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, and they address a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and ‘foetal alcohol syndrome’ to the nature of accidents. These seemingly diverse social situations within which emerges is that we need a more sociologically informed understanding of the personal shading the public dangers they are expected to manage.
Download or read book Fatal Tradeoffs written by W. Kip Viscusi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Risks and Public Dangers written by Stephen Platt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Health and the social body -- 3 Some problems in the development of a sociology of accidents -- 4 The idea of prevention: A critical review -- 5 Health, harm or happy families? Knowledges of incest in twentieth century parliamentary debates -- 6 The gaze of the counsellors: Discourses of intervention in marriage -- 7 'To hell with tomorrow' -- Coronary heart disease risk and the ethnography of fatalism -- 8 More medicalizing of mothers: Foetal alcohol syndrome in the USA and related developments -- 9 'What's your excuse for relapsing?': A critique of recent sexual behaviour studies of gay men -- 10 Quo vadis the special hospitals? -- 11 The social relations of HIV testing technology -- 12 Safety as a social value: A community approach -- Index
Download or read book Mastering the Risky Business of Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure written by Manal Fouad and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment in infrastructure can be a driving force of the economic recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of shrinking fiscal space. Public-private partnerships (PPP) bring a promise of efficiency when carefully designed and managed, to avoid creating unnecessary fiscal risks. But fiscal illusions prevent an understanding the sources of fiscal risks, which arise in all infrastructure projects, and that in PPPs present specific characteristics that need to be addressed. PPP contracts are also affected by implicit fiscal risks when they are poorly designed, particularly when a government signs a PPP contract for a project with no financial sustainability. This paper reviews the advantages and inconveniences of PPPs, discusses the fiscal illusions affecting them, identifies a diversity of fiscal risks, and presents the essentials of PPP fiscal risk management.
Download or read book Public Risk Management and the Private Sector written by David A. Moss and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although students of finance have long examined ways in which private parties manage risk, risk management by government has received surprisingly little attention over the years. Those scholars who have addressed the subject of public risk management have tended to focus mainly on government risk bearing - that is, policies such as deposit insurance that shift private risks onto the government's own shoulders. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that public risk management represents an essential function of government and one that extends far beyond mere risk bearing by the government itself. The first section defines the boundaries of public risk management and explores justifications for this governmental function from a theoretical perspective. The second section surveys the history of risk-management policy in the United States and organizes it into three broad phases: security for business (to 1900), security for workers (1900-1960), and security for all citizens (since 1960). Finally, the third section suggests a range of possible strategies for future research on public risk management.
Download or read book Dealing with Public Risk in Private Infrastructure written by Timothy Irwin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many infrastructure privatizations still leave governmentsand thus taxpayersexposed to significant financial risks. This book examines these risks and considers how governments should respond to investors' requests for guarantees and other forms of government support. The report examines how governments can decide which risks to bear and which to avoid, how they can reduce the risks that private investors face without giving guarantees, and how they can measure, budget, and account for the risks they do take on.
Download or read book Risk Pricing Strategies for Public Private Partnership Projects written by Abdelhalim Boussabaine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnership Projects Innovation in the Built Environment The complexity of public–private partnership (PPP) project procurement requires an effective process for pricing, managing and appropriate allocation of risks. The level at which risk is priced and the magnitude of risks transferred to the private sector will have a significant impact on the cost of the PPP deals as well as on the value for money analysis and on the selection of the optimum investment options. The construction industry tends to concentrate on the effectiveness of risk management strategies and to some extent ignores the price of risk and its impact on whole life cost of building assets. There is a pressing need for a universal framework for the determination of fair value of risks throughout the PPP procurement processes. Risk Pricing Strategies for Public–Private Partnership Projects addresses the issues of risk pricing and demonstrates the use of a coherent strategy to arrive at a fair risk price. The focus of the book is on providing risk pricing strategies to maximise return on risk retention and allocation in the procurement of PPP projects. With its up-to-date coverage of the latest developments in risk pricing, and comprehensive treatment of the methodologies involved in designing and building risk pricing strategies, the book offers a simple model for pricing risks. The book follows a thematic structure: PPP processes map; risk, uncertainty and bias; risk pricing management strategies; risk pricing measurement and modelling; risk pricing at each of the project life-cycle stages – and deals with all the important risk pricing issues, using relevant real-world situations through case study examples. It explains how the theory and strategies of risk pricing can be successfully applied to real PPP projects and reflects the broad understanding required by today’s project risk analysts, in their new and important role in PPP contract management. Also in the IBE series Managing Change in Construction Projects Senaratne & Sexton 978 14443 3515 6 Innovation in Small Professional Practices in the Built Environment Lu & Sexton 978 14051 9140 1 Other books of interest Urban Infrastructure: Finance and Management Wellman & Spiller 978 0 470 65635 8 Project Finance for Construction and Infrastructure Pretorius, Chung-Hsu, McInnes, Lejot & Arner Construction Supply Chain Management Pryke 978 14051 5844 2 Policy, Finance & Management for Public-Private Partnerships Edited by Akintoye & Beck 978 14051 7791 7 Strategic Issues in Public-Private Partnerships, 2nd Edition Dewulf, Blanken & Bult-Spiering 978 0 470 65635 8
Download or read book The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader written by James F. Cosgrave and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Risk vs Risk written by John D. Graham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? In Risk versus Risk, John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener, and their colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis marshal an impressive set of case studies which demonstrate that all too often our nation's campaign to reduce risks to our health and the environment is at war with itself.
Download or read book Foucault Health and Medicine written by Robin Bunton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas. Foucault, Health and Medicine explores such important issues as: Foucault's concept of 'discourse', the critique of the 'medicalization' thesis, the analysis of the body and the self, Foucault's concept of 'bio-power' in the analysis of health education, the implications of Foucault's ideas for feminist research on embodiment and gendered subjectivities, the application of Foucault's notion of governmentality to the analysis of health policy, health promotion, and the consumption of health. Foucault, Health and Medicine offers a `state of the art' overview of Foucaldian scholarship in the area of health and medicine. It will provide a key reference for both students and researchers working in the areas of medical sociology, health policy, health promotion and feminist studies.
Download or read book Risk Management in Public Private Partnerships written by Mohammad Heydari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a channel through which the public sector can seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector to procure public infrastructure. Governments around the world are increasingly turning to Public-Private Partnerships to deliver essential goods and services. Unfortunately, PPPs, like any other public procurement, can be at risk of corruption. This book begins by looking at the basics of PPP and the challenges of the PPP process. It then conceptualizes the vulnerability of various stages of Public-Private Partnership models and corruption risk against the backdrop of contract theory, principal-agent theory and transaction cost economics. The book also discusses potential control mechanisms. The book also stresses the importance of good governance for PPP. It outlines principles and procedures of project risk management (PRM) developed by a working party of the Association of Project Managers. Finally, the book concludes by proposing strategies and solutions to overcome the limitations and challenges of the current approach toward PPP.
Download or read book Public Safety and Risk Assessment written by David J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon. Over the past decade health and safety has become a major issue of public interest. There are countless stories of health and safety activities interfering with public life, preventing some beneficial activity from taking place – even creating absurd or dangerous situations. On the one hand, risk assessment, properly conducted, is highly beneficial – it saves lives and prevents injuries. But on the other, it can damage public life. Why has this come about, and does it have to be like that? The authors examine the origins of the problem, look critically at the tools used by safety assessors and their underlying assumptions, and consider important differences between public life and industry (where the approaches largely originated). They illuminate the whole with an analysis of legal requirements, attitudes of stakeholders, and recent research on risk perception and decision making. The result is a profound and important analysis of risk and safety culture and a framework for managing public safety more effectively.
Download or read book Public Services Or Corporate Welfare written by Dexter Whitfield and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the need for public ownership and the welfare state in the face of increasing globalization.
Download or read book Risk and Public Policy in East Asia written by Mutsuko Takahashi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Asian society is marked by social processes associated with the loss of stable economic growth and high employment; family structures capable of caring for family members in need; and governmental economic and political competence. Post-financial crisis job uncertainty and income and labor market polarization have become important issue in Asian societies. Family structures are viewed as have been weakened, with a corresponding rise in divorce and domestic violence. Trust in the government is in decline. Against this backdrop it is timely to review three critical issues: 1) policies addressing work-related risks and socio-economic security; 2) changes regarding the structure and stability of families; and 3) issues concerning governance in times of weakened state capacity, declining trust, and the emergence of new politics. Containing chapters written by international scholars, this book introduces the concepts and theoretical approaches of risk and risk and governance and places them within the context of Asian societies.
Download or read book Public Sector Leadership in Assessing and Addressing Risk written by Peter C. Young and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Sector Leadership in Assessing and Addressing Risk explores risk management in practice, focusing on the identification of risks in the European public sector while contextualising its Eurocentric analysis within a global setting; it lays the groundwork for understanding the main philosophical premises of risk management.
Download or read book The Value of Private Risk Versus the Value of Public Risk written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
