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1. The Feeling of Risk

   New Perspectives on Risk Perception

   By Paul Slovic

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century. In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as...

   Published September 2nd 2010 by Routledge
2. Risk, Media and Stigma

   Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology

   By Paul Slovic

   Edited by James Flynn, Howard Kunreuther

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the pervasive power of the media, public concern about health and ecological risks can have enormous...

   Published January 31st 2001 by Routledge
3. The Perception of Risk

   By Paul Slovic

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views...

   Published March 31st 2000 by Routledge