Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer
existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in nature. Synthetic …

Historically, regulations governing chemical use have often focused on widely used
chemicals and acute human health effects of exposure to them, as well as their potential to …

Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic
and socio-political changes globally-the chaos in the world banking system and the financial …

As members of a democratic society, individuals face complex decisions about whether to
support climate change mitigation, vaccinations, genetically modified food, nanotechnology …

A mail survey on ecological risk perception was administered in the summer of 2002 to a
randomized sample of the lay public and to selected risk professionals at the US …

Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM/A) methods have been applied in many risk
management contexts. This article aims to diagnose the state of the art and identify research …

Public perceptions of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and other low‐carbon
electricity‐generating technologies may affect the feasibility of their widespread deployment …

The past 15 years have witnessed the rise of post‐development theory as a means of
understanding the development discourse since the 1940s. Post‐development argues that …

Risk perceptions are important to the policy process because they inform individuals'
preferences for government management of hazards that affect personal safety, public …

Public participation in environmental decision-making (EDM) has been broadly discussed.
However, few recent studies in English have focused on the participation subject, scope …