Communicating Risks to the Public

Risk communication: the evolution of attempts.- I: Risk Communication Practices.- 1. Risk communication in Europe: Ways of implementing art. 8 of the post-Seveso directive.- 2. Active and passive provision of risk information in the Netherlands.- 3. Developing communications about risks of major industrial accidents in the Netherlands.- 4. Rights and duties concerning the availability of environmental risk information to the public.- 5. Risk comparisons and risk communication: Issues and problems in comparing health and environmental risks.- II: Research Perspectives on Risk Communication Practices.- 6. Contaminated soil: public reactions, policy decisions, and risk communication.- 7. Prior knowledge and risk communication: The case of nuclear radiation and X-rays.- 8. The role of the media in risk communication.- 9. Credibility and trust in risk communication.- 10. How people might process medical information: A 'mental model' perspective on the use of package inserts.- 11. Communicating about pesticides in drinking water.- 12. The time dimension in perception and communication of risk.- 13. Risk communication and the social amplification of risk.- III: New Approaches and Methods.- 14. Hazard images, evaluations and political action: The case of toxic waste incineration.- 15. The danger culture of industrial society.- 16. Risk communication in emergencies.- 17. Risk communication: The need for a broader perspective.- 18. Small group studies of regulatory decision making for power-frequency electric and magnetic fields.- 19. Strategies of risk communication: Observations from two participatory experiments.