Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation

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.