Provides guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. This title offers a survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can participate in inclusive risk governance.[...]

Risk is a popular topic in many sciences - in natural, medical, statistical, engineering, social, economic and legal disciplines. Yet, no single discipline can grasp the full meaning of risk. Investigating risk requires a multidisciplinary approach. The authors, coming from two very different discip[...]

Ob Terror, Nanotechnologie oder Klimawandel - die Öffentlichkeit ist häufig einem Wechselbad aus Schreckensnachrichten, euphorischen Innovationsberichten, Dramatisierungen und Verharmlosungen ausgesetzt. Die Folge ist schlichtweg Verunsicherung. Das Wirrwarr sich widersprechender Aussagen wirft Fr[...]