The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Uncertain Temporal Logics for Risk Analysis....Pages 1-13
Individual Differences in Risk Perception and Risk-Taking Preferences....Pages 15-24
Technological Risk Perception: Similarities and Dissimilarities in French and American Samples....Pages 25-30
Risk Perception and Energy Policy: A Swedish Case Study....Pages 31-41
Dispersion of Dense Air Toxics....Pages 43-49
Carpet/4-Phenylcyclohexene Toxicity: The EPA Headquarters Case....Pages 51-61
Analysis of Community Risk Resulting from Rupture of a Sour Gas Pipeline....Pages 63-76
Risk Assessment for Children Playing on Lawns Treated with a Pesticide....Pages 77-86
Uncertainty Management in Engineering Risk Assessment....Pages 87-92
An Approach to the Analysis of Accident Precursors....Pages 93-104
Risk Perception and the Politics of Citizen Participation: The Case of Radioactive Waste Management....Pages 105-117
Screening Lifetime Risks to Help Prevent Radon Exposure: A Methodology for Public Health Policy Makers....Pages 119-135
Dose-Response Relationship Between Arsenic Inhalation Exposure and Risk of Lung Cancer....Pages 137-143
Development of Uncertainty Factors for Nonhuman Receptors....Pages 145-152
Addressing Uncertainties in Environmental Site Audits....Pages 153-161
Farmworkers and Pesticide Exposure: Perceived Risk and Self-Protective Behavior....Pages 163-173
Age-Dependent Risk Quantification Using Standard Maintenance Records....Pages 175-188
Use of Risk Analysis on Remedial Alternatives....Pages 189-197
Victims, Agents, and Outrage....Pages 199-205
An Introduction to the Texas Risk Communication Process....Pages 207-212
Risk Communication and the Cognitive Representation of Uncertainty....Pages 213-227
Common Methodological Flaws in Risk Assessment....Pages 229-235
Use of Risk Assessment Methodologies for Sewage Sludge Disposal Regulations....Pages 237-245
Presentation of Risk Assessments of Carcinogens....Pages 247-256
Exposure to Environmental Contaminants Through Breast Milk....Pages 257-266
Cancer Risk from the Application of Newspaper to Farmland....Pages 267-274
Alar in Fruit: Limited Regulatory Action in the Face of Uncertain Risks....Pages 275-284
Extending Biologically-Based Cancer Risk Modeling to Apply to Benzene-Induced Leukemogenesis....Pages 285-293
Reducing the Risk in Buying Risk Analysis Software....Pages 295-304
Probabilistic Causality and Its Applications to Risk Analysis....Pages 305-314
A Comprehensive Risk Analysis Example....Pages 315-320
Public Perception and Response to the Parkfield California Earthquake Prediction....Pages 321-334
Preliminary Analysis of Off-Normal Emissions from a Hazardous Waste Incinerator....Pages 335-343
Estimating Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators....Pages 345-353
The Role of Structure-Activity Relationships in Risk Assessment....Pages 355-360
A Framework for Computer Security Risk Management....Pages 361-374
The Rules of the Game: What Recent Rulings Say About Courts’ and Regulators’ Differing Approaches to Establishing Causation for Chronic Health Risks....Pages 375-383
Determinants of Severity in Acutely Hazardous Chemical Releases....Pages 385-388
The 1988 Ashland Oil Spill: Lessons Learned Regarding Emergency Response Planning for Hazmat Releases....Pages 389-392
Potential Uses and Abuses of Toxic Release Inventory Data....Pages 393-400
Robust Estimation of Lung Retention in Animals Exposed to α-Emitting Radionuclides....Pages 401-410
Dispositional Differences of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in Rats and Humans: Implications in Cancer Mechanisms and Risk Assessment....Pages 411-419
The Risk Analysis of Extreme Events in Queuing Theory....Pages 421-428
On the Inclusion of Organizational and Managerial Influences in Probabilistic Safety Assessments of Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 429-439
Risk Communication and Regulatory Culture Clash....Pages 441-450
Bridging the Gap Between Risk Assessment by Professionals and Acceptance by Lay Decision Makers....Pages 451-458
Acceptability of Risk: Vinyl Chloride and RCRA Subtitle D, Potential Decision Framework....Pages 459-468
Consistent Estimates of Urethane Carcinogenic Potency Using Pharmacokinetic and Time-Dependent Models....Pages 469-484
Carcinogenic Impurities in Food and Color Additives—An Analysis of Presumptive Risk Levels....Pages 485-493
Decision Theory, Failure Tolerance Analysis, and Quantitative Risk Analysis — Synergistic Application to the Space Station Freedom WP-2 Program....Pages 495-506
Sources and Consequences of Hypothetical Bias in Economic Analyses of Risk Behavior....Pages 507-518
Establishing Communication with Brookhurst: A Case Study in Community Involvement....Pages 519-523
Accepting New Technology: Community Relations for Mobile Incineration in Illinois....Pages 525-530
Evaluation of Analytical Methods in Water for the Chemicals Listed Under the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65)....Pages 531-545
Use of Health Risk Estimates in U.S. EPA Activities....Pages 547-554
The Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment in the Continuing Risk Management of a Chlorine Handling Facility....Pages 555-565
Ozone Risk Assessment Implementation: Transferring Risk Analysis Technology to Ozone Nonattainment Planning....Pages 567-583
Acute Ozone Exposure-Response Relationships for Use in Health Risk Assessment....Pages 585-598
Risk-Benefit Balancing in Risk Management: Measures of Benefits and Detriments....Pages 599-613
Risk Assessment of Soil-Related Foundation Failure....Pages 615-624
Estimating Mine Equipment Injury Rates....Pages 625-633
Ecological Models for Risk Assessment/Risk Management....Pages 635-642
Science Quality and Risk Assessment: The Leaking Landfill....Pages 643-650
Risk Assessment-Risk Management: The Need for a Synthesis....Pages 651-660
Application of an Urban-Scale Population Exposure Model (NEM/SAI) to Ozone Exposure Assessment....Pages 661-676
New Approaches and Tools for Quantitative Cancer Risk Assessment....Pages 677-692
Statistical Properties of a Model-Free Approach to Low-Dose Extrapolation....Pages 693-705
Back Matter....Pages 707-713