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2023
The hard model of health security – enhancing surveillance, public control and enforcement measures, and development of preventive and therapeutic technologies – can be extremely effective in controlling disease outbreaks in the short term. But it does not generate sustainable societal resilience to future risk.
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The hard model of health security – enhancing surveillance, public control and enforcement measures, and development of preventive and therapeutic technologies – can be extremely effective in controlling disease outbreaks in the short term. But it does not generate sustainable societal resilience to future risk.
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ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 2010
The construction of a secure and safe society using information and communication technology (ICT) is recognised as an urgent issue in Japan. This recognition is based on public fear about crime related to manufactured risk caused by modernisation or industrial civilisation.
Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito
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The construction of a secure and safe society using information and communication technology (ICT) is recognised as an urgent issue in Japan. This recognition is based on public fear about crime related to manufactured risk caused by modernisation or industrial civilisation.
Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito
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2010
This chapter compares and contrasts European and American perceptions of risk and risk regulation. We first lay out the theoretical basis of the “risk society,” or how risk and views about risk have changed with modernity and the advancement of technology.
Lina M. Svedin +2 more
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This chapter compares and contrasts European and American perceptions of risk and risk regulation. We first lay out the theoretical basis of the “risk society,” or how risk and views about risk have changed with modernity and the advancement of technology.
Lina M. Svedin +2 more
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Environmental Politics, 2002
Ulrich Beck's writings about risk and ecopolitics have been heralded as one of the most perceptive responses to the 'chaos' and 'uncertainty' of the contemporary world, resulting in various collections of essays concerned with clarifying and extending his Risk Society thesis. On the basis of all this intellectual noise one would assume that Beck's work
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Ulrich Beck's writings about risk and ecopolitics have been heralded as one of the most perceptive responses to the 'chaos' and 'uncertainty' of the contemporary world, resulting in various collections of essays concerned with clarifying and extending his Risk Society thesis. On the basis of all this intellectual noise one would assume that Beck's work
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2015
In the last few months, unmanned cars have made the headlines throughout the world, showing for instance fascinating Google or Mercedes Benz prototype cars. The reality is that driverless vehicles have been already part of our daily life but most ordinary citizens just didn’t know it. Because these vehicles were hidden behind unmanned metro operational
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In the last few months, unmanned cars have made the headlines throughout the world, showing for instance fascinating Google or Mercedes Benz prototype cars. The reality is that driverless vehicles have been already part of our daily life but most ordinary citizens just didn’t know it. Because these vehicles were hidden behind unmanned metro operational
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Risk, society and system failure
Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2006Modern societies are risk societies. Together with the formidable development of complex technologies (chemical industry, energy production, mass transportation, etc), new hazards have emerged. Sharing danger is the hallmark of modernity, as large industrial accidents can now have countrywide, or even, worldwide consequences.
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