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Communicating the rationale for allocating resources to manage policy priorities and their risks is challenging. Here, we demonstrate that environmental risks have diverse attributes and locales in their effects that may drive disproportionate responses among citizens. When 2,065 survey participants deployed summary information and their own understanding to assess 12 policy‐level environmental risks...
In light of the increasing threat of an avian flu pandemic in the UK, the Home Office have been investigating a range of methods for managing the potential problem of excess deaths that could exceed the capabilities of existing burial and funeral facilities. There is currently unprecedented pressure on the Government to find an environmentally, ethically, socially and economically sound solution to...
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Risk Assessment Process
Nanomaterials – Issues for Risk Assessment
Assembling Evidence for Safety and Intervention
International Case Studies
Data Gaps in Risk Assessment of Nanomaterials
Summary
References
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