COVID-19: Confronting a New World Risk

This book examines COVID-19 and other recent infectious disease outbreaks, exploring the roles of risk communication, risk perception, and risk science in managing the global health crisis. It distills past and present knowledge, appraises current responses, introduces new ideas, and offers recommendations to inform decisions on how to proceed.

Format: Hardback
Length: 294 pages
Publication date: 28 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This extensive book examines COVID-19, along with other recent infectious disease outbreaks, with the overarching goal of offering constructive lessons and critical reflections from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplinary interests within the field of risk analysis. The chapters in this edited volume delve into the roles of risk communication, risk perception, and risk science in assisting in managing the ever-expanding pandemic that was declared a public health emergency of international concern in the early months of 2020. A few chapters in the book also include relevant content discussing past disease outbreaks, such as Zika, Ebola, and MERS-CoV. This book distills past and present knowledge, appraises current responses, introduces new ideas and data, and offers key recommendations, which will aid in illuminating different aspects of the global health crisis. It also explores how various constructive insights offered from a 'risk perspective might inform decisions on how best to proceed in response as the pandemic continues.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Risk Research.

Weight: 730g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032326740