Classes of socio-technical hazards allow a characterization of the risk in technology innovation and clarify the mechanisms underpinning emergent technological risk.
Emerging Technological Risk
provides an interdisciplinary account of risk in socio-technical systems including hazards which highlight:
·         How technological risk crosses organizational boundaries,
·         How technological trajectories and evolution develop from resolving tensions emerging between social aspects of organisations and technologies and
·         How social behaviour shapes, and is shaped by, technology.
Addressing an audience from a range of academic and professional backgrounds,
is a key source for those who wish to benefit from a detail and methodical exposure to multiple perspectives on technological risk. By providing a synthesis of recent work on risk that captures the complex mechanisms that characterize the emergence of risk in technology innovation,
bridges contributions from many disciplines in order to sustain a fruitful debate.
is one of a series of books developed by the Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.