Risk Analysis and Human Behavior
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Risk Analysis and Human Behavior

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Risk Analysis and Human Behavior

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The articles collected here are foundational contributions to integrating behavioural research and risk analysis. They include seminal articles on three essential challenges. One is ensuring effective two-way communication between technical experts and the lay public, so that risk analyses address lay concerns and provide useful information to people who need it. The second is ensuring that analyses make realistic assumptions about human behaviours that affect risk levels (e.g., how people use pharmaceuticals, operate equipment, or respond to evacuation orders). The third is ensuring that analyses recognize the strengths and weaknesses of experts' understanding, using experts' knowledge, while understanding its limits. The articles include overviews of the science, essays on the role of risk in society, and applications to domains as diverse as environment, medicine, terrorism, human rights, chemicals, pandemics, vaccination, HIV/AIDS, xenotransplantation, sexual assault, energy, and climate change. The work involves collaborations among scientists from many disciplines, working with practitioners to produce and convey the knowledge needed help people make better risk decisions.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781136495793
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Decision Making
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Risk Analysis and Human Behavior
  3. Earthscan Risk in Society Series
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright
  6. Content
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. On the Cover
  10. Introduction
  11. PART I Overview
  12. PART II Behaviorally realistic risk analysis
  13. PART III Social context of behavioral research
  14. PART IV Risk communication
  15. PART V Aiding individual risk decisions
  16. PART VI Aiding public risk decisions
  17. Postscript: Integrating risk analysis and behavioral research
  18. Index