Background, aims, and scope Life cycle assessment (LCA) stands as the pre-eminent tool
for estimating environmental effects caused by products and processes from 'cradle to …

Since the publication of the first edition, behavioral decision research has made noteworthy
progress and has been integrated with related fields such as behavioral economics and …

Public health depends on laypeople's ability to understand the health-related choices that
they and their societies face. The study of risk perception examines that ability. The study of …

The notion of “dangerous climate change” constitutes an important development of the 1992
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It persists, however, as an …

The'Precautionary Principle'has sparked the central controversy over European and US risk
regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond …

Stunned by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration adopted a
new National Security Strategy in September 2002. The UK government took a similar …

The 'tragedy of the commons' is a classic type of problem, involving multiple actors who face
individual incentives to deplete shared resources and thereby impose harms on others …

Decision thresholds play important role in medical decision-making. Individual decision-
making differences may be attributable to differences in subjective judgments or cognitive …

Decision-making in environmental health policy is a complex procedure even in well-known
conditions. Thus, in the case of uncertainty, decision-making becomes a hurdle race. We …

We present a decision support framework for science-based assessment and multi-
stakeholder deliberation. The framework consists of two parts: a DPSIR (Drivers–Pressures …