How Long to Read Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment

How Long Does it Take to Read Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 25 minutes to read Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment by Michael Bollig

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Description

A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. However recent thinking in human ecology, evolutionary biology, not to mention in economic and political theory has come to assign to "risk" a prominent role in predictive modeling of behavior. It turns out that risk minimalization is central to the understanding of individual strategies and numerous social institutions. It is not simply a peripheral and transient moment in a group’s history. Anthropologists interested in forager societies have emphasized risk management strategies as a major force shaping hunting and gathering routines and structuring institutions of food sharing and territorial behavior. This book builds on some of these developments but through the analysis of quite complex pastoral and farming peoples and in populations with substantial known histories. The method of analysis depends heavily on the controlled comparisons of different populations sharing some cultural characteristics but differing in exposure to certain risks or hazards. The central questions guiding this approach are: 1) How are hazards generated through environmental variation and degradation, through increasing internal stratification, violent conflicts and marginalization? 2) How do these hazards result in damages to single households or to individual actors and how do these costs vary within one society? 3) How are hazards perceived by the people affected? 4) How do actors of different wealth, social status, age and gender try to minimize risks by delimiting the effect of damages during an on-going crisis and what kind of institutionalized measures do they design to insure themselves against hazards, preventing their occurrence or limiting their effects? 5) How is risk minimization affected by cultural innovation and how can the importance of the quest for enhanced security as a driving force of cultural evolution be estimated?

How long is Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment?

Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment by Michael Bollig is 442 pages long, and a total of 111,384 words.

This makes it 149% the length of the average book. It also has 136% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 8 minutes to read Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment aloud.

What Reading Level is Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment?

Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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