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The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. B. John Garrick

    1. PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, USA

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  2. Willard C. Gekler

    1. PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Risk Analysis (AIRA, volume 9)

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Table of contents (67 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Uncertain Temporal Logics for Risk Analysis

    • Louis Anthony Cox Jr.
    Pages 1-13

  3. Individual Differences in Risk Perception and Risk-Taking Preferences

    • Karl Dake, Aaron Wildavsky
    Pages 15-24

  4. Technological Risk Perception: Similarities and Dissimilarities in French and American Samples

    • M. Peter Hoefer, Vasudeva S. Raju
    Pages 25-30

  5. Risk Perception and Energy Policy: A Swedish Case Study

    • Ragnar E. Löfstedt
    Pages 31-41

  6. Dispersion of Dense Air Toxics

    • Krishna Nand, Bruno I. Loran
    Pages 43-49

  7. Carpet/4-Phenylcyclohexene Toxicity: The EPA Headquarters Case

    • J. William Hirzy, Rufus Morison
    Pages 51-61

  8. Analysis of Community Risk Resulting from Rupture of a Sour Gas Pipeline

    • B. W. Greenwood, J. M. Hudson, A. I. Bodner
    Pages 63-76

  9. Risk Assessment for Children Playing on Lawns Treated with a Pesticide

    • Susan H. Youngren, Nancy J. Rachman, Duncan Turnbull
    Pages 77-86

  10. Uncertainty Management in Engineering Risk Assessment

    • Serdar Uckun, Benoit M. Dawant, Kazuhiko Kawamura
    Pages 87-92

  11. An Approach to the Analysis of Accident Precursors

    • Vicki M. Bier, Ali Mosleh
    Pages 93-104

  12. Risk Perception and the Politics of Citizen Participation: The Case of Radioactive Waste Management

    • Michael E. Kraft
    Pages 105-117

  13. Screening Lifetime Risks to Help Prevent Radon Exposure: A Methodology for Public Health Policy Makers

    • Douglas S. Eisinger, Robert A. Simmons
    Pages 119-135

  14. Dose-Response Relationship Between Arsenic Inhalation Exposure and Risk of Lung Cancer

    • Irva Hertz-Picciotto, David Holtzman
    Pages 137-143

  15. Development of Uncertainty Factors for Nonhuman Receptors

    • A. B. Chandler, C. L. Fordham
    Pages 145-152

  16. Addressing Uncertainties in Environmental Site Audits

    • Ram B. Kulkarni, Barney P. Popkin
    Pages 153-161

  17. Farmworkers and Pesticide Exposure: Perceived Risk and Self-Protective Behavior

    • Brenda Nordenstam, Elaine Vaughan
    Pages 163-173

  18. Age-Dependent Risk Quantification Using Standard Maintenance Records

    • W. S. Roesener, A. J. Wolford, C. L. Atwood
    Pages 175-188

  19. Use of Risk Analysis on Remedial Alternatives

    • Teresa A. Schuller, Denice H. Wardrop, Marilyn Hewitt
    Pages 189-197

  20. Victims, Agents, and Outrage

    • Mary R. English
    Pages 199-205
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About this book

The 1989 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis dramatically demonstrated one of the most important reasons for having the Society - to bring together people with highly diverse backgrounds and disciplines to assess the common problems of societal and individual risks. The physical scientists emphasized the analytical tools for assessing environmental effects and for modeling risks from engineered systems and other human activities. The health scientists presented numerous methods of analyzing health effects, including the subject of dose-response relationships, especially at low exposure levels - never an easy analysis. The social and political scientists concentrated on issues of risk perception, communication, acceptability, and human touch. Others discussed such issues as cost-benefit analysis and the risk-based approach to decision analysis. Use of risk assessment methods for risk management continued to be a matter of strong opinion and debate. The impacts of state and federal regulations, existing and planned, were assessed in sessions and in luncheon speeches. These impacts show that risk analysis practitioners will have an increasingly important role in the future. They will be challenged to provide clear, easily understood evaluations of risk that are responsive to society's concern for risk, as evidenced in laws and regulations. Of course, the various risk analysis specialties overlapped in domains of interest.

Editors and Affiliations

  • PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, USA

    B. John Garrick, Willard C. Gekler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk

  • Editors: B. John Garrick, Willard C. Gekler

  • Series Title: Advances in Risk Analysis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2370-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43833-2Published: 30 April 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2372-1Published: 22 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2370-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 714

  • Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Public Health, Epidemiology, Environmental Management

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