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Risk Management in the Arctic Offshore: Wicked Problems Require New Paradigms
Recent project-management literature and high-profile disastersâthe financial crisis, the BP
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Fukushima nuclear accidentâillustrate the flaws of
traditional risk models for complex projects. This research examines how various groups with
interests in the Arctic offshore define risks. The findings link the wicked problem framework and
the emerging paradigm of Project Management of the Second Order (PM-2). Wicked problems
are problems that are unstructured, complex, irregular, interactive, adaptive, and novel. The
authors synthesize literature on the topic to offer strategies for navigating wicked problems,
provide new variables to deconstruct traditional risk models, and integrate objective and
subjective schools of risk analysis
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Terror threat perception and its consequences in contemporary Britain
The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and subsequent terrorist acts around the world, have alerted social psychologists to the need to examine the antecedents and consequences of terrorist threat perception. In these two studies we examined the predictive power of demographic factors (age, sex, location), individual values and normative influences on threat perception and the consequences of this perception for behavioural change and close relationships. In study 1 (N = 100) gender, benevolence values and normative influences were all correlates of threat perception, whilst sense of personal threat was correlated with increased contact with friends and family. In study 2 (N = 240) age, sex, location, and the values of Openness to Change and Hedonism, all predicted threat perception, which in turn predicted behavioural change and relationship contact. Such findings point to the important role social psychologists should play in understanding responses to these new terrorist threats
Liberty versus safety: a design review
It is our contention that when designing against terrorism, it is important to fully understand both
terrorist perpetrator techniques and terrorism prevention principles and to establish the myths and
realities about âfear of terrorismâ, before catalyzing new design innovations. This paper assesses the
requirement for designers to mediate issues of user liberty versus security. We assess the troublesome
design tradeoffs between accommodation of users and exclusion of terrorist misuse and abuse linked to
bicycle parking, using the Conjunction of Terrorism Opportunity framework. We include the case
study of the Biceberg automated bike parking system in relation to the fitness for purpose versus
resistance to terrorism debate
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