The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk

Abstract

Uncertain Temporal Logics for Risk Analysis.- Individual Differences in Risk Perception and Risk-Taking Preferences.- Technological Risk Perception: Similarities and Dissimilarities in French and American Samples.- Risk Perception and Energy Policy: A Swedish Case Study.- Dispersion of Dense Air Toxics.- Carpet/4-Phenylcyclohexene Toxicity: The EPA Headquarters Case.- Analysis of Community Risk Resulting from Rupture of a Sour Gas Pipeline.- Risk Assessment for Children Playing on Lawns Treated with a Pesticide.- Uncertainty Management in Engineering Risk Assessment.- An Approach to the Analysis of Accident Precursors.- Risk Perception and the Politics of Citizen Participation: The Case of Radioactive Waste Management.- Screening Lifetime Risks to Help Prevent Radon Exposure: A Methodology for Public Health Policy Makers.- Dose-Response Relationship Between Arsenic Inhalation Exposure and Risk of Lung Cancer.- Development of Uncertainty Factors for Nonhuman Receptors.- Addressing Uncertainties in Environmental Site Audits.- Farmworkers and Pesticide Exposure: Perceived Risk and Self-Protective Behavior.- Age-Dependent Risk Quantification Using Standard Maintenance Records.- Use of Risk Analysis on Remedial Alternatives.- Victims, Agents, and Outrage.- An Introduction to the Texas Risk Communication Process.- Risk Communication and the Cognitive Representation of Uncertainty.- Common Methodological Flaws in Risk Assessment.- Use of Risk Assessment Methodologies for Sewage Sludge Disposal Regulations.- Presentation of Risk Assessments of Carcinogens.- Exposure to Environmental Contaminants Through Breast Milk.- Cancer Risk from the Application of Newspaper to Farmland.- Alar in Fruit: Limited Regulatory Action in the Face of Uncertain Risks.- Extending Biologically-Based Cancer Risk Modeling to Apply to Benzene-Induced Leukemogenesis.- Reducing the Risk in Buying Risk Analysis Software.- Probabilistic Causality and Its Applications to Risk Analysis.- A Comprehensive Risk Analysis Example.- Public Perception and Response to the Parkfield California Earthquake Prediction.- Preliminary Analysis of Off-Normal Emissions from a Hazardous Waste Incinerator.- Estimating Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators.- The Role of Structure-Activity Relationships in Risk Assessment.- A Framework for Computer Security Risk Management.- The Rules of the Game: What Recent Rulings Say About Courts' and Regulators' Differing Approaches to Establishing Causation for Chronic Health Risks.- Determinants of Severity in Acutely Hazardous Chemical Releases.- The 1988 Ashland Oil Spill: Lessons Learned Regarding Emergency Response Planning for Hazmat Releases.- Potential Uses and Abuses of Toxic Release Inventory Data.- Robust Estimation of Lung Retention in Animals Exposed to a-Emitting Radionuclides.- Dispositional Differences of 2, 3, 7, S-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in Rats and Humans: Implications in Cancer Mechanisms and Risk Assessment.- The Risk Analysis of Extreme Events in Queuing Theory.- On the Inclusion of Organizational and Managerial Influences in Probabilistic Safety Assessments of Nuclear Power Plants.- Risk Communication and Regulatory Culture Clash.- Bridging the Gap Between Risk Assessment by Professionals and Acceptance by Lay Decision Makers.- Acceptability of Risk: Vinyl Chloride and RCRA Subtitle D, Potential Decision Framework.- Consistent Estimates of Urethane Carcinogenic Potency Using Pharmacokinetic and Time-Dependent Models.- Carcinogenic Impurities in Food and Color Additives-An Analysis of Presumptive Risk Levels.- Decision Theory, Failure Tolerance Analysis, and Quantitative Risk Analysis -Synergistic Application to the Space Station Freedom WP-2 Program.- Sources and Consequences of Hypothetical Bias in Economic Analyses of Risk Behavior.- Establishing Communication with Brookhurst: A Case Study in Community Involvement.- Accepting New Technology: Community Relations for Mobile Incineration in Illinois.- Evaluation of Analytical Methods in Water for the Chemicals Listed Under the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65).- Use of Health Risk Estimates in U.S. EPA Activities.- The Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment in the Continuing Risk Management of a Chlorine Handling Facility.- Ozone Risk Assessment Implementation: Transferring Risk Analysis Technology to Ozone Nonattainment Planning.- Acute Ozone Exposure-Response Relationships for Use in Health Risk Assessment.- Risk-Benefit Balancing in Risk Management: Measures of Benefits and Detriments.- Risk Assessment of Soil-Related Foundation Failure.- Estimating Mine Equipment Injury Rates.- Ecological Models for Risk Assessment/Risk Management.- Science Quality and Risk Assessment: The Leaking Landfill.- Risk Assessment-Risk Management: The Need for a Synthesis.- Application of an Urban-Scale Population Exposure Model (NEM/SAI) to Ozone Exposure Assessment.- New Approaches and Tools for Quantitative Cancer Risk Assessment.- Statistical Properties of a Model-Free Approach to Low-Dose Extrapolation.- Author Index.