European University Institute Library

The Earthscan reader on risk, edited by Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The Earthscan reader on risk

277086192

edited by Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm

The study of risk in the 21st century / Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa 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 'risk' and the development of modernity / Gerda Reith -- Gender, race and perceived risk : the 'white male' 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. Löfstedt -- 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