Trust in Risk Management

Michael Siegrist is Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Timothy C. Earle is a Research Associate at Western Washington University, Bellingham, US. Heinz Gutscher is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• Preface1.Trust, Risk Perception and the TCC Model of Cooperation2.Social Identity and the Group Context of Trust: Managing Risk and Building Trust through Belonging3.Trust and Risk: Implications for Management 4. A Social Judgement Analysis of Trust: People as Intuitive Detection Theorists5.Scepticism, Reliance and Risk Managing Institutions: Towards a Conceptual Model of Critical Trust?6.Societal Trust in Risk Analysis: Implications for the Interface of Risk Assessment and Risk Management 7.Rebuilding Consumer Trust in the Context of a Food Crisis8.Trust and Risk in Smallpox Vaccination9.The What, How and When of Social Reliance and Cooperative Risk Management10.Getting Out of the Swamp: Towards Understanding Sources of Local Officials11.Trust in Wetlands Management12.Antecedents of System Trust: Cues and Process Feedback13.Trust and Confidence in Crisis Communication: Three Case Studies

An excellent collection of texts that can be recommended both to researchers and to others interested in cooperative risk management... Siegrist, Earle, Gutscher and their contributors have produced a well-written and finely edited book that improves the understandings of the relationships between trust, risk and uncertainty in cooperative risk management.' Journal of Risk Research'Given the importance of trust as a factor in risk communication studies, this book offers both communication scholars and their students an excellent conceptual resource.' Science Communication'[A]n excellent introduction into the great variety of trust studies' Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment'Everyone knows that trust is important in managing environmental and technological risks, yet there is little agreement on the nature of trust and how to study it. Siegrist, Earle and Gutscher convinced leading American and European scholars to write twelve original essays to try to make sense of the origins and consequences of the uncertainty and scepticism common in the public mind. Although the authors use different methods, conceptual frameworks, models and theories, they all write with fervour (perhaps reflecting the importance of the topic), but maintain the highest standards of scholarship. The chapters complement each other so that the value of this book is greater than the sum of the individual chapters. Indispensable to anyone concerned with trust in cooperative risk management.' Robert E. O'Connor, National Science Foundation