Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation

Bridget M. Hutter is Professor of Risk Regulation and Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author of numerous publications on the subject of risk regulation and has an international reputation for her work on compliance, regulatory enforcement and business risk-management.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Anticipating risk and organising risk regulation: current dilemmas Bridget M. Hutter; Part II. Threat, Vulnerabilities and Insecurities: 2. Risk society and financial risk Clive Briault; 3. Before the sky falls down: a 'constitutional dialogue' over the depletion of internet addresses Jeanette Hofmann; 4. Changing attitudes to risk? Managing myxomatosis in twentieth-century Britain Peter Bartrip; 5. Public perceptions of risk and 'compensation culture' in the UK Sally Lloyd-Bostock; 6. Colonised by risk. The emergence of academic risks in British higher education Michael Huber; Part III. Social, Organisational and Regulatory Sources of Resilience and Security: 7. Regulating resilience? Regulatory work in high-risk arenas Carl Macrae; 8. Critical infrastructures, resilience and organisation of mega-projects: the Olympic Games Will Jennings and Martin Lodge; 9. Creating space for engagement? Lay membership in contemporary risk governance Alan Irwin and Kevin Jones; 10. Bioethics and the risk regulation of 'frontier research': the case of gene therapy Javier Lezaun; 11. Preparing for future crises: lessons from research Arjen Boin; 12. Conclusion: important themes and future research directions Bridget M. Hutter; References; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'The semantics of risk is suddenly everywhere. More than ever there is an urgent need for clarification, professional engagement and sensitivity for the multi-faceted nature of the dilemmas surrounding risk regulation. This is exactly what Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation offers the reader. I learnt a lot.' Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich and London School of Economics and Political Science