Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies
Anna Olofsson · Jens O. Zinn
Sep 2018 · Springer
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384
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About this ebook
Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.
This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies approach uncertain futures and their potential dangers.
The contributions illustrate the usefulness of particular methods and methodologies for researching risk in order to advance the understanding and management of social, technological and environmental challenges.
With research strategies and approaches from sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and gender studies, Researching Risk and Uncertainty provides guidance and inspiration to students and scholars across a range of disciplines interested in risk, disaster and social crisis.
This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies approach uncertain futures and their potential dangers.
The contributions illustrate the usefulness of particular methods and methodologies for researching risk in order to advance the understanding and management of social, technological and environmental challenges.
With research strategies and approaches from sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and gender studies, Researching Risk and Uncertainty provides guidance and inspiration to students and scholars across a range of disciplines interested in risk, disaster and social crisis.
About the author
Anna Olofsson is Professor of Sociology at Mid Sweden University and the director of the Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Sweden.
Jens O. Zinn is T.R Asworth Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the ESRC Centre of Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK (2016-2018) and Research Awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015).
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