Forthcoming Risk Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

   Putting Research into Practice

   Edited by Carina Fearnley, Emily Wilkinson, Catherine J. Tillyard, Stephen J. Edwards

   Building upon presentations given during the conference on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice’, held at University College London in November 2009, the articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards research is accessed and used by...

   To Be Published July 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Rural Livelihoods in China

   Political Economy in Transition

   Edited by Heather Xiaoquan Zhang

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   Fundamental changes have taken place in China in ownership and control of, as well as access to livelihood assets in the context of transition and globalisation. This book examines the political economy of China's rural livelihoods transformations during the past three decades and in contemporary...

   To Be Published December 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks

   Science, Cancer, and the Geneticization of Drug Testing

   By John Abraham, Rachel Ballinger

   Series: Genetics and Society

   Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks is a case study of changes in drug testing since the late 1990s, specifically geneticization of carcinogenic risk assessment and regulation of pharmaceuticals. Radically new ways of determining whether medical drugs might cause cancer have been established...

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge