In the last few years, debates over proposed usage of land for high-risk ventures have
caused some debate, both in the affected communities as well as among policy makers. It …

Social capacity building for natural hazards is a topic increasingly gaining relevance not
only for so-called developing countries but also for European welfare states which are …

Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk
researcher must read this book-it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk …

9/11. Tornadoes. Emergency preparedness. Whether explaining parts per million to a
community exposed to contaminated groundwater or launching a campaign to encourage …

Current discussions on public trust, as well as on risk communication, have a restricted
rationalistic bias in which the cognitive-reflexive aspect of trust is emphasized at the …

The academic environments of risk analysis and security studies had hardly 'spoken'to one
another until recently. The two fields of study were defined within different academic …

This is the first book to clearly assess the increasingly important area of communication of
risk in the health sector. We are moving away from the days when paternalistic doctors …

Risk communication is a significant challenge in risk management. It serves different
purposes; an important one is to improve the public risk awareness and mitigation. Because …

Risk is a relatively new object of sociological research, but this research field has grown
rapidly over the last three decades. This chapter argues that the task of sociology is to …

This report is a revised version of the Work Package (WP) 5 report on Risk Communication
originally completed in May 2010. In the logic of the CapHaz-Net project it fulfils a specific …