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Elicitation of Preferences by Baruch Fischhoff 9789048157761
Booksplease Price: £91.59Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their ... -
Acceptable Risk by Baruch Fischhoff
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £37.98The common denominator of a growing number of hard decisions facing modern societies is the need to determine 'how safe is safe enough?'. The authors begin by defining acceptable-risk problems and... -
Elicitation of Preferences by Baruch Fischhoff 9780792377436
Booksplease Price: £90.86Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their ... -
Risk: A Very Short Introduction by Baruch Fischhoff
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own... -
Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science Baruch Fischhoff 9780198893905
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92People often face complex, novel, fateful, and wildly unbounded problems throughout their lives. In their work, disciplinary scientists hone their wisdom on the complexities of necessarily bounded... -
Judgment and Decision Making Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 9781849714457
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics,... -
Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices Baruch Fischhoff 9780262553162
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553162Author Baruch FischhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Risk Analysis and Human Behavior Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 9781849714433
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.74The articles collected here are foundational contributions to integrating behavioural research and risk analysis. They include seminal articles on three essential challenges. One is ensuring... -
Psychology and Environmental Change Raymond S. Nickerson 9780805840971
Booksplease Price: £55.81This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting environmentally relevant... -
Redesigning Environmental Valuation: Mixing Methods within Stated Preference Techniques by Neil A. Powe 9781845422790
Booksplease Price: £110.08This comprehensive volume explores the extent to which the challenges facing stated preference environmental valuation can be overcome through mixing methods. In redesigning stated preference, two... -
The Risks of Terrorism by W. Kip Viscusi 9781441954282
Booksplease Price: £91.06The September 11, 2001 terrorism attack on the United States has led government officials to rethink anti-terrorism policies and researchers to assess the implications for the study of risk and... -
The Risks of Terrorism by W. Kip Viscusi 9781402077340
Booksplease Price: £91.66The September 11, 2001 terrorism attack on the United States has led government officials to rethink anti-terrorism policies and researchers to assess the implications for the study of risk and... -
The Earthscan Reader on Risk Ragnar E. Lofstedt 9781844076871
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This new anthology is a comprehensive introduction to the field of risk theory. The introduction provides the ideal starting point for students and professionals new to risk studies and offers a... -
Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report by The Covid Crisis Group
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.64Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of... -
The Future of Risk Management by Howard Kunreuther 9780812225082
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on... -
Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers by Ellen Peters 9780190861094
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £35.53Our grasp of numbers and uncertainty is one of humankind's most distinctive and important traits. It is pivotal to our exceptional ability to control the world around us as we make short-term choices... -
Evidence-Based Management: How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions by Eric Barends 9781398693425
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £107.31Decisions in businesses and organizations are too often based on fads, fashions and the success stories of famous CEOs. At the same time, traditional models and new cutting-edge solutions often fail... -
Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making Derek J. Koehler (University of Waterloo) 9781405157599
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £45.56The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions... -
Evidence-Based Management: How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions Eric Barends 9780749483746
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.42Decisions in businesses and organizations are too often based on fads, fashions and the success stories of famous CEOs. At the same time, traditional models and new cutting-edge solutions often fail... -
Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World Ortwin Renn 9781844072927
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24'Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk... -
Rationality and the Reflective Mind by Keith E. Stanovich 9780195341140
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £99.73In Rationality and the Reflective Mind, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science--the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition... -
On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina by Ronald J. Daniels 9780812219593
Booksplease Price: £28.98Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006 Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and... -
Decisions for Sustainability: Facts and Values by Thomas Dietz 9781009169424
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.24Decisions by individuals, organisations, and nations shape the well-being of humans and other species, the environment, and sustainability. Decisions for Sustainability examines how we can make... -
Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media Anat Gesser-Edelsburg (University of Haifa, Israel) 9780367224059
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94In a digital world where the public's voice is growing increasingly strong, how can health experts best exert influence to contain the global spread of infectious diseases? Digital media sites... -
Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI by Gayle Rogers
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we... -
The Future of Risk Management by Howard Kunreuther 9780812251326
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on... -
Should We Risk It?: Exploring Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving by Daniel M. Kammen 9780691074573
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.85How dangerous is smoking? What are the risks of nuclear power or of climate change? What are the chances of dying on an airplane? More importantly, how do we use this information once we have it? The...