Earthscan Risk in Society
About the Book Series
The Earthscan Risk in Society series publishes high quality research, teaching, practical and policy- related books on topics that address risk analysis, risk assessment, risk perception, risk management, uncertainty and decision-making in society. Professor Ragnar Lofstedt is the series editor and the series has published highly influential authors in the field of risk, including Ortwin Renn, Baruch Fischhoff and Paul Slovic.
A Theory of Uncertainty: Perspectives in Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Risk Research
1st Edition
By Andreas Klinke
December 26, 2025
Using sources from classical to modern that broach the phenomenon of uncertainty and its relation to risk, this book creates a novel approach to the recognized but theoretically often unattended issue of uncertainty. Andreas Klinke develops a new, general theory of uncertainty that provides a ...
Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication: The Global Challenges of COVID-19 and Climate Change
1st Edition
By Antoinette Fage-Butler
January 30, 2025
This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change. Our media spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about what we should or should not be doing to meet the ...
Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrik Kihlbom, Mats G. Hansson, Silke Schicktanz
May 30, 2022
This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication examines the introduction of new types of health ...
A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk: Imagining the Future
1st Edition
By Gaspar Mairal
September 30, 2021
This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of "managing the future" by ...
Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Sander van der Linden, Ragnar E. Löfstedt
March 31, 2021
This edited volume looks at whether it is possible to be more transparent about uncertainty in scientific evidence without undermining public understanding and trust. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this book explores the communication of risk and decision-making in an ...
Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society: Examples from Emerging Technologies, Public Health and Environment
1st Edition
By Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist
June 30, 2020
Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to some extent ...
Siting Noxious Facilities: Integrating Location Economics and Risk Analysis to Protect Environmental Health and Investments
1st Edition
By Michael R Greenberg
March 04, 2020
Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It proposes a framework that integrates economic location analysis and risk analysis, emphasizing the reduction of uncertainty. This book begins by ...
Risk Conundrums: Solving Unsolvable Problems
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger E Kasperson
June 13, 2017
A risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is not easily engaged. Such perplexing problems can either paralyze or badly delay risk analysis and directions for progression. Rather than simply focusing on the progress in risk analysis that has...
Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters: From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience
1st Edition
By Michael Greenberg
November 30, 2016
The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history. They should number about 90 million by mid-century, more than doubling their current size. The massive increase in seniors and relative decline of those of working age in the US is mirrored...
Explaining Risk Analysis: Protecting health and the environment
1st Edition
By Michael Greenberg
September 19, 2016
Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often ...
Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning
1st Edition
Edited
By Asa Boholm, Ragnar E. Lofstedt
February 28, 2016
From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of ...
Foresight in Action: Developing Policy-Oriented Scenarios
1st Edition
Edited
By Marjolein van Asselt, Susan van 't Klooster
June 25, 2015
Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures. Research has indicated, however, that the reality of how professionals go about employing scenarios is often starkly...