Risk and public policy in East Asia / edited by Raymond K.H. Chan, Mutsuko Takahashi and Lillian Lih-rong Wang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : risk and public policy in East Asia / Raymond K.H. Chan, Mutsuko Takahashi, Lillian Lih-rong Wang -- The relevance of social science approaches to risk for social policy research / Jens O. Zinn -- Visualizations of risk and governance : some observations on change / Bridget M. Hutter -- Risks, family, and gender justice in contemporary Japan / Mutsuko Takahashi -- Rebuilding the family unit or defamilialization? : the politics of family policy for social risks in South Korea / Naoko Soma -- New social risks and family change in Taiwan / Tsung-Hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes -- Managing family risk in Hong Kong : how and why / Raymond K.H. Chan -- Managing family-related risks in East Asia / Lillian Lih-rong Wang -- Unemployment and government's role in a risk society : a case study in Taiwan / Fen-ling Chen -- Managing risks during a financial crises : promises and fallacies of the productive welfare model in Hong Kong / Raymond M.H. Ngan -- Managing or generating new social risks? : labour market changes and the Japanese welfare regime / Junko Yamashita -- Comments on socio-economic security in four East Asian societies / Dukjin Chang -- Risk governance in a double risk society : from system failure to unknown complexities / Jaeyeol Yee -- Social inequalities in the perceptions of risk and vulnerability : the case of floods in Taiwan / Hsiu-jen Jennifer Yeh -- Risk and the emergence of new subpolitics in Japan / Ki-young Shin -- Governance and social risks in East-Asian countries : peculiarities and new paths / Jen-der Lue.