Future Risks and Risk Management

Abstract

Editors' Introduction. I. Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design of Safety J. Rasmussen. II. Epistemic Risk: the Significance of Knowing What One Does not Know N.-E. Sahlin, J. Persson. III. Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge P. Slovic. IV. Psychological Research on Risk: Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk B. Brehmer. V. Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives J. Josefsson, G. Hermeren, N.-E. Sahlin. VI. The Psychology of Risk Characterization B. Fischhoff. VII. Risk Communication: the Social Construction of Meaning and Trust T.C. Earle, G. Cvetkovich. VIII. Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management K.S. Shrader-Frechette.