Aims and scope The usage of mobile phones and the internet by young people has
increased rapidly in the past decade, approaching saturation by middle childhood in …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are one of the most promising materials in nanotechnology. The
various synthesis, purification and postprocessing methods produce CNTs with diverse …

Aim and objectives Adopting an approach which is child-centred, comparative, critical and
contextual, EU Kids Online II aims to design, conduct and analyse a major quantitative …

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 …

Is the internet really transforming children and young people's lives? Is the so-called 'digital
generation'genuinely benefiting from exciting new opportunities? And, worryingly, facing …

This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the
EU's regulatory successes within-and increasingly beyond-its borders rest on the …

We define risks as the possibility that human actions or events lead to consequences that
harm aspects of things that human beings value (Kates & Kasperson, 1983; Hohenemser …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

Foundations of Risk Analysis presents the issues core to risk analysis–understanding what
risk means, expressing risk, building risk models, addressing uncertainty, and applying …

The pressure for increasing quality while reducing time and costs places particular
emphasis on managing risk in projects. To this end, several models and techniques have …