The 40th Anniversary of the Society for Risk Analysis presents an apt time to step back and
review the field of risk communication. In this review, we first evaluate recent debates over …

Since anthropogenic climate change first emerged on the public agenda in the mid‐to‐late
1980s, public communication of climate change and—more recently—the question of how to …

Concerns over the harmful effects of social media have directed public attention to media
literacy as a potential remedy. Current conceptions of media literacy are frequently based on …

Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk
researcher must read this book-it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk …

Recent research indicates that social trust of those who manage a hazard is strongly
correlated to judgments about the hazard's risk and benefits. The present study investigates …

The magnitude of public concerns about agricultural innovations has often been
underestimated, as past examples, such as pesticides, nanotechnology, and cloning …

If uncontrolled, human influences on the climate system may generate changes that will
endanger various aspects of life on Earth. The precise implications of the scientific claims …

The gamble has been to decision research what the fruit fly has been to biology–a vehicle
for examining fundamental processes with presumably important implications outside the …

The first decade of the twenty-first century was a big one for climate science and policy.
Climate change steadily rose on the policy agenda of nations, regions, states, and cities …

It was postulated that shared values determine social trust in institutions and persons related
to a technology: One has trust in people holding similar salient values. Furthermore, it was …