Risk

• VOLUME ONE: PSYCHOLOGICAL –AND AMERICAN – ORIGINSSocial Benefit versus Technological Risk: What Is Our Society Willing to Pay for Safety? - Chauncey StarrPerception of Risk - Paul SlovicPerceived Risk, Real Risk: Social Science and the Art of Probabilistic Risk Assessment - William R. FreudenbergHow Safe Is Enough? A Psychometric Study of Attitudes towards Technological Risks and Benefits - Baruch Fishchoff, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, Stephen Read and Barbara CombsComparative Studies of Risk Perception: A Review of Twenty Years of Research - Åsa BoholmRisk Perception and Communication Unplugged: Twenty Years of Process - Baruch FischhoffConditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree - Daniel Kahneman and Gary KleinReasoning the Fast and Frugal Way: Models of Bounded Rationality - Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel G. GoldsteinJudgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases - Amos Tversky and Daniel KahnemanProbability Neglect: Emotions, Worst Cases, and Law - Cass R. SunsteinWhen Lives Are in Their Hands: Dilemmas of the Societal Decision Maker - Sarah Lichtenstein, Robin Gregory, Paul Slovic and Willem A. WagenaarAmerican Exceptionalism and the Political Acknowledgement of Risk - Sheila JasanoffGenealogies of Risk: Searching for Safety, 1930s–1970s - William BoydVOLUME TWO: SOCIAL TURN AND SOCIAL THEORIESGender, Race and Perception of Environmental Health Risks - James Flynn, Paul Slovic and C.K. MertzMedia Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach - William A. Gamson and Andre ModiglianiThe Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework - Roger E. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina S. Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne X. Kasperson and Samuel RatickRisk and Responsibility - Anthony GiddensWorld Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties - Ulrich BeckLiving in a World Risk Society - Ulrich BeckCritical Reflections on “Reflexive Modernization” - Jeffrey C. AlexanderBeck, Individualization and the Death of Class: A Critique - Will AtkinsonEnvironment, Modernity and the Risk-Society: The Apocalyptic Horizon of Environmental Reform - Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert SpaargarenMoral Panic versus the Risk Society: The Implications of the Changing Sites of Social Anxiety - Sheldon UngarThe Social Fabric at Risk: Toward the Social Transformation of Risk Analysis - James F. Short, JrGovernmentality and the Risk Society - Pat O’MalleyRisk as a Forensic Resource - Mary DouglasHow Fair Is Safe Enough? The Cultural Approach to Societal Technology Choice - Steve Rayner and Robin CantorThe Social Construction of Risk Objects: Or, How to Pry Open Networks of Risk - Stephen HilgartnerVOLUME THREE: REGULATION GOVERNANCE AND APPLIED STUDIESHeading into the Unknown: Everyday Strategies for Managing Risk and Uncertainty - Jens O. ZinnEdgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk-Taking - Stephen LyngRisk Rationalities in Contemporary Social Work Policy and Practice - Hazel KemshallThe Rise and Fall of Risk Reporting - Jenny Kitzinger and Jacquie ReillyThe Institutional Origins of Risk: A New Agenda for Risk Research - Henry RothsteinThe Risk Management of Everything - Michael PowerThe Limits and Variety of Risk-based Governance: The Case of Flood Management in Germany and England - Kristian KriegerRisk Analysis and Risk Management: An Historical Perspective - Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl MumpowerThe Rise of the Regulatory State in Europe - Giandomenico MajoneThe Hare and the Tortoise Revisited: The New Politics of Consumer and Environmental Regulation in Europe - David VogelComparing Precaution in the United States and Europe - Jonathan B. Wiener and Michael D. RogersVOLUME FOUR: CONSEQUENCES, DEBATES, IMPLICATIONSThe Policy Implications of Different Concepts of Risk - Judith A. BradburyTechnical and Democratic Values in Risk Analysis - Daniel J. FiorinoMisunderstood Misunderstanding: Social Identities and Public Uptake of Science - Brian WynneFear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk - Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, Donald Braman and John GastilOut of the Frying Pan into the Fire: Behavioral Reactions to Terrorist Attacks - Gerd GigerenzerThe Dangers of Hanging Baskets: “Regulatory Myths” and Media Representations of Health and Safety Regulation - Paul AlmondSafety Management and Public Spaces: Restoring Balance - David J. Ball and Laurence Ball-KingThe Rise of Risk and the Decline of Politics - Steve RaynerScience and the Precautionary Principle - Kenneth R. Foster, Paolo Vecchia and Michael H. RepacholiThe Precautionary Principle and the Uncertainty Paradox - Marjolein B.A. Van Asselt and Ellen VosPerceived Risk, Trust and Democracy - Paul SlovicThe Future Lies in Uncertainty - D.J. SpiegelhalterUsing Surveys in Public Participation Processes for Risk Decision Making: The Case of the 2003 British GM Nation? Public Debate - Nick F. Pidgeon, Wouter Poortinga, Gene Rowe, Tom-Horlick Jones, John Walls and Tim O’RiordanPublic Participation Methods: A Framework for Evaluation - Gene Rowe and Lynn J. Frewer

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