The book provides a comprehensive, accessible and concise guide to risk assessment, management and governance. A basic pillar for the book is the risk governance framework proposed by the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC).

Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making.

The book brings together studies by leading social scientists from the East and the West who investigate the economic, legal, institutional, behavioral, social and political aspects of environmental policy.

Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making.

This book addresses this issue by exploring how particular technological risks come to be selected for societal attention and action.

This is especially true for the many new European States, including the countries in transition from centralised to market economies. This book presents case studies on risk communication.

This book addresses this issue by exploring how particular technological risks come to be selected for societal attention and action.

Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest.

Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest.

This book addresses this issue by exploring how particular technological risks come to be selected for societal attention and action.