| Title : | Modern RISC-Societies | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Lučka Kajfež-Bogataj, Editor ; Karl H. Müller, Editor | | Publisher: | Wien : edition echoraum | | Publication Date: | 2010 | | Pagination: | 570 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 23 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-3-901941-23-8 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-550)
Includes index (p. 559-569) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Globalization - Social aspects
Progress
Risk-Sociological aspects
Social structure
Technology - Social aspects
| | Class number: | 303 | | Abstract: | Between 2007 and 2009 the University of Ljubljana initiated a trans-disciplinary research program on rare events with strong societal repercussions and effects, which has been labeled as RISC-Program(rare incidents, strong consequences).In this process, the university established a small unit that sought to act as a catalyst for promoting trans-disciplinary research on rare events across a wide variety of domains both inside and outside the social sciences. The RISC-unit organized a series of talks, lectures, workshops and research activities, which highlighted the current knowledge frontiers on rare events as well as the available policy recommendations and best practices in reducing hazards and disasters related to rare events. From its overall goals, these RISC-activities were intended as a model for a new type of trans-disciplinary knowledge production that draws together expertise in the social, physical, biological and technical sciences to address urgent societal problems.
The present volume summarizes he advances of these RISC-activities and points to the high relevance of the new RISC-based perspective on societal problems both at present and in the future. | | Contents note: | An Overview on RISC-Research : RISC-Processes and Societal Coevolution: Towards a Common Framework; RISC Modeling and RISC Theory: A discussion of Zipf's law; Bubbles everywhere in human affairs; New models for generating power law distributions; RISC-Processes and their weak societal protection networks; Zipf's law in labor status transitions: new insights from Austrian labor market data; Self-reflexive, contagious, attraction-driven networks(SCANs):towards a new Transdisciplinary framework for RISC-Modeling; The organizing of promises: finance capital as Tensegrity system; The poverty of economic explanations RISC-Applications: Weather and Climate related natural hazards; The RISC potential of converging technologies; Risk, crisis and control: between fear and negligence; RISC-Prevention and damage control: Natural and other disasters: a social work perspective; Secondary disaster and social work; "Tsunami project": a case of a collaborative project between two universities; Seismic isolation for asymmetric building structures; Towards Inter- and Transdisciplinary forms of science: Socio-economics and a new scientific paradigm; Turning science transdisciplinary: Is it possible for the new concept of cross-disciplinary cooperation's to enter Slovenian science and policy; Approaches to Interdisciplinary collaborative research; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17055 |
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