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Hazards Vulnerability and Environmental Justice
From Hurricane Katrina and the south Asian tsunami to human-induced atrocities, terrorist attacks and the looming effects of climate change, the world is assailed by both natural …
Trust in Risk Management
Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading …
Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication
This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. …
Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society
Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with …
The Citizens at Risk
Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up …
Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society
This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public understanding and trust. With …
The Perception of Risk
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. This book brings together the work of Paul Slovic, an analyst of risk, …
Global Environmental Risk
Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 and ongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continue to register a destructive toll on …
Risk, Media and Stigma
The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and …
Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action
Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a …
Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters
The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history. They should number about 90 million by mid-century, more than doubling …
Calculating Political Risk
Calculating Political Risk is rich and illuminating, and much more than a political science treatise. Althaus draws on diverse literature, extensive interviews and intriguing case …