Product Description: The terror attacks of 9.11 signalled that people are increasingly put at risk of not only terrorism but natural and technological disasters as well. Since 9.11 scholars have been asking new questions about catastrophe and made important and interesting innovations in methods, concepts, and theories regarding disaster and terror...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Increasingly, people's lives are being defined by large-scale organizational decision processes involving governments, businesses and other institutions. This book examines the nature of decision making by organizations confronted with various risks, focusing on choices in which technology and scientific advances play major roles, and looks at the regulatory agencies that set and enforce standards of health and safety...read more

Examines the case of an office building contaminated by dioxins and PCBs after a fire, and analyses the problems faced in handling its cleanup and determining acceptable levels of risk