33885

edited by Ragnar E. Lofstedt and Asa Boholm

Earthscan

xiv, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The study of risk in the 21st century / Ragnar E. Lofstedt and Asa Boholm -- The policy implications of differing concepts of risk / Judith A. Bradbury -- A philosophical perspective on risk / Sven Ove Hansson -- Uncertain times : the notion of ʹriskʹ and the development of modernity / Gerda Reith -- Gender, race and perceived risk : the ʹwhite maleʹ effect / Melissa L. Finucane ... [et al.] -- How safe is safe enough? : a psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits / Baruch Fischhoff ... [et al.] -- Risk as feelings / George F. Loewenstein ... [et al.]. -- Accounting for the social context of risk communication / Branden B. Johnson -- Risk communication and management in the 21st century / Ragnar E. Lofstedt -- Exploring the dimensionality of trust in risk regulation / Wouter Poortinga and Nick F. Pidgeon -- Salient value similarity, social trust and risk/benefit perception / Michael Siegrist, George Cvetkovich and Claudia Roth -- Risk-based decision analysis in support of precautionary policies / Michael L. DeKay ... [et al.] -- Risk regulation under pressure : problem-solving or blame-shifting? / Christopher HOod and Henry Rothstein -- What price safety? : the precautionary principle and its policy implications / Giandomenico Majone -- Uncertainty and environmental learning : reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm / Brian Wynne

AU Lofstedt, Ragnar , AU Boholm, Asa

HD

61

.E27

2009

HD 61 .E27 2009

2009