This note provides a response to Professor Eugene Rosa's viewpoint to our paper <italic>On Risk Defined as an Event Where the Outcome is Uncertain</italic> published in this journal in January 2009. We argue that his summary of our work does not reflect what we are saying in the original paper. We restate that...

This study provides an analysis of risk-benefit communication and participation of the siting process for the Norwegian Goliat oil field development, within the context of a revised model of the International Risk Governance Council's framework. The main objective of the study is a retrospective...

Health risks are front-page news. Be it BSE, surface ozone or radiation from transmitter stations or mobile phones, the popular press puts out a constant stream of risk warnings and sensational reports about potential health threats. This article looks at how the general public perceives and...

Reviewing the existing studies of public perception and drawing analogies from other risk technologies, this paper explores the public positions on research and implementation of geoengineering as a means to combat climate change. Existing studies on geoengineering perceptions show low levels of...