Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments: Selected and Revised Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis-Europe, Como, Italy, 12-14 September 2005

The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists And Governments look at risks in a comprehensive way, considering risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but rather as originating and challenging the various disciplines. Contextual aspects, usually defined by engineers as "margin conditions," are generally taken as given and rarely discussed, but deserve much more attention, particularly when uncertainties are large. Hence the book focuses on topics that received little attention until now, like economic aspects of disasters and land use planning as a mitigation tool. However, the volume also leaves room for more traditional issues, like risk perception, and environmental risk assessment of pollutants, plants, and new substances introduced in the market.

The book is particularly of interest to scientists in engineering, physics, medicine, biology, social sciences focusing on risk aspects, risk analysis, and risk assessment.