Managing Risk During the Covid-19 Pandemic

<p>The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness yet there is limited understanding of how risk can and should be used in policy making. </p><p> This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making including its role in rhetoric to legitimise decisions and choices. </p><p> Using risk as a framework it examines how policy makers in a range of countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and explains why some were more successful than others.</p>