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Introductions
Dr. Ray Kemp and Dr. Ragnar Löfstedt
Technical Committee and
SRA Executive Committee
Air Pollution Damages
and Costs: An Analysis of Uncertainties
A. Rabl
Analysis of the Risk of
Introduction of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome to
Ireland, An
Richard O'Flaherty
Approach for Risk-Based
Regulation and Risk Management of Nuclear Power Plants
H.P. Berg
Assessing and
Controlling Risks from Workplace Exposure to Chemicals
M. D. Topping
Assessment of Financial
Aspects of Risks Associated with Structures
S. M. Hockey and S. K. Liew
Assessment of Risk for
the Transportation of Dangerous Goods
D.G. Leeming, S.A. Gadd, and T.N.K. Riley
Assessment of Risks of
Transporting Wastes to the Swan Hills Treatment Centre of CHEM
Security Alberta Ltd., The
J. H. Shortreed, F. F. Saccomanno, S. Ramsay, M. Hilbert, and
S. Nassar
Attitudes to a Nuclear
Waste Repository by Politicians and the Public
Lennart Sjöberg
Bench-Marking Safety? A
Document for Discussion
Robert Miles
Can We Predict When
People Take Risks: The Impact of Individuals' Mood States on Risk
Taking
P. J. Clough, G.R.J. Hockey, and A.J. Maule
Channel Tunnel Safety
Case: Quantitative Risk Assessment Methodology
T.A.W. Geyer, M.I. Morris, and R. M. Morris
Characterising Public
Trade-Off Choices in the Context of Siting Hazardous Chemical
Plant
P. T. Allen
Combining Air Pollution
Epidemiology and Risk Perception and Communication in the CESAR
Study
Erik Lebret, Tony Fletcher, Bert Brunekreef, and Alan Pinter
Combining Qualitative
and Quantitative Research Methods in Risk Perceptions Research
Peter Simmons, Convenor; Lynn Frewer, Claire Marris, Nick
Pidgeon, Lennart Sjöbert, and Peter Wiedemann, Panellists
Communicating
Uncertainty in the Risk Society
Stephen Healy and John Handmer
Communication Nuclear
Risks - The International Nuclear Event Scale (INES)
R.H. Taylor, S.J. Mortin, B. Thomas, and D. Ruatti
Comparing Ethylene
Glycol (EG) and Propylene Glycol (PG) Using Toxicity As a Basis
for Risk Management Decisions
E.A. McKenna, J.S. LaKind, D.F. Bodishbaugh, R.P. Hubner, A.H.
Kim, D.F. Ludwig, G. Wright, B.S. Suedel, and R.G. Tardiff
Comparing the Health
Benefits and Risks of Methyl-Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MTBE)
in Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) and Winter Oxyfuels in the U.S.
R.G. Tardiff, S.R. Baker, J.S. LaKind, and E.J. Burger
Compartmental Models for
Predicting the Level Listerial Contamination in a Damaged Silage
Bale
L. A. Kelly, G. Gettinby, and G. Gibson
Cost-Effectiveness of
Lifesaving Interventions in Sweden, The
A. L. Joakim, J. Ramsberg, and Lennart Sjöberg
Creating Images of
Terrorist Risk and Security in Belfast and London
J. Coaffee
Critical/Double
Technologies and Industrial Risk: Photon Technologies and New
Risk Problems
Yuri S. Protasov
Customize Risk
Communication Since the General Public Is Heterogeneous
Lars-Erik Warg, Kjell Andersson, Gunnar Ahlborg Jr., and Inger
Fagerlund
Decision Support for
Food Related Risks: Identification of Inference Rules and Key
Risk Attributes Using Fuzzy Logic
David Waters and Peter Grindrod
Declaration of the
Industrial Activity's Safety in Russia
A. N. Yelokhin, E. A. Kozlov, and A. N. Chernoplekov
Demand for Risk
Reduction
Lennart Sjöberg
Determinants and
Consequences of Perceived Risk (Plenary Speech)
Lennart Sjöberg
Developing Methods to
Enhance the Organisational Management of Ambiguous Risks
Tom Horlick-Jones and Jonathan Rosenhead
Development of a
Risk-Based Methodology for Improvement of Health Technologies:
Pilot Application to Orthopaedic Surgery
D. Charles, A. Bardsley, P. Joice, I. D. Learmonth, and E. J.
Smith
Digesting Risk: The
Social Psychological Processes Influencing Risk Management of
Food Hazards (Plenary Speech)
Glynis M. Breakwell
Does Science Have a Role
in Risk Analysis? The Case of the Brent Spar and Other Cautionary
Tales
A. L. Rice
Downside Risk and
Fishing Quotas
Alistair Milne
Emergency Awareness in
Planning
Karl G. Palmér
Empirical Evaluation of
an Experimental Public Planning Jury, An
Louise O'Hara and Peter Allen
Epidemiological
Equivocacy as a Source of Uncertainty in Risk Assessment
T. Sly
European Biotechnology
Regulation: Contested Boundaries of Risk
Les Levidow, Susan Carr, and David Wield
Evaluating Risk
Communication at a Nuclear Plant: A Defence of the Psychometric
Approach
Terence Lee
Evaluating Uncertainty
of Computing Methods in Estimating Consequences of Major
Industrial Hazards
M. E. Soggiu, L. Lauria, and G. Marsili
Experiencing Uncertainty
and Judging Risk
J. Richard Eiser
Feasibility Studies
Methodology for Sustainable Development of Housing Industry in
Romania
Cristian-Silviu Banacu
Fires in Chemical Plants
- How to Reduce the Risks
P. van Donkelaar
Fossil or Nuclear
Energy: A Comparison of Environmental Costs and Risks
Ari Rabl and Mona Dreicer
Future Role of Risk
Assessment and Risk Management in Environmental Regulation, The
(Keynote Speech)
David Slater
Genetic Risk Regulation
Society and Ethics
Donald Bruce, John Eldridge, and Joyce Tait
Getting Local
Acceptance: Siting a Spent Fuel Storage Facility in Hungary
A. Vari
Guidelines Are Wide
Lines: France's Nuclear Waste Programme Assessed on the Facility
Siting Guidelines
C.M. Mays and M. Poumadère
Hazards Analysis of LPG
Pipeline Transportation
Dr. A. Yedigarov
Human and Organisational
Factors in Offshore Safety
Kathryn Mearns, Rhona Flin, Rachael Gordon, and Mark Fleming
Identification of
Critical Communication Factors from the Use of Communication
Models in Failure Analysis, The
R. Stewart, J. Fortune, and G. Peters
Improving Passenger
Safety at Platforms
T.A.W. Geyer, C.P. Chapman, M.I. Morris, and P.R. Chislett
Incorporating Accident
Risk and Disruption in Economic Models of Public Transport
Andrew W. Evans and Alan D. Morrison
Increasing Risk by
Avoiding Communication: Emergency Public Warnings
Jonathan D. Sime
Influencing Public
Opinion - A Nuclear Issue
A. Sjölander
Innovation, Regulation
and the Emergence of Regulatory Science: an Empirical and
Theoretical Analysis
Alan Irwin, Elaine McCarthy, Henry Rothstein, and Steve
Yearley
Insurance of Industrial
Risks in Russia, The
A. N. Yelokhin and A. N. Chernoplekov
Integrated Approach to
Risk Assessment in the Environmental Quality Control Within the
Republic of Bashkortostan
V. E. Gvozdev, R. Z. Khamitov, S. V. Pavlov, and M. J.
Polkanov
Integrated Knowledge of
Organisation Influence on Plant Safety
M. Abramovici
Integrated Regional Risk
Assessments: The case of radioactive contamination on the Kola
peninsula
R. Bergman, A. Baklanov, and B. Segerståhl
Integrated Risk
Management
T.A.W. Geyer and M.I. Morris
Large Scale Processing
of Genetically Manipulated Organisms -- Assessing the Risks by
Q.R.A. Methodology
Nigel J. Brace
Life After the Chernobyl
Accident Experience of Swedish Hunter Families
Britt-Marie Drottz-Sjöberg, Göran Ågren, and Ann Enänder
Managing Risk in Welfare
Agencies
A. Alaszewski, L. Harrison, J. Manthorpe, and M. Walsh
Many Faces of 'The
Cultural Theory of Risk': An Anthropological Critique, The
Å. Boholm
Media Reporting of
Radiation Risk in Europe
L.J. Frewer
Microbiological Risk
Assessment of Meat: A Veterinary Perspective
Dr. Kathryn H. Christiansen
Mitigating Losses and
Providing Protection Against Catastrophic Risks: The Role of
Insurance and Other Policy Instruments (Plenary Speech)
Howard Kunreuther
Modelling Public Risk
Perceptions for Lifestyle and Technological Hazards
C. Pattison, D. Hedderley, and L. J. Frewer
Monitoring Perceptions
of Food Hazards Over Time: Some Measurement Issues
Chris Fife-Schaw and Gene Rowe
NA-Tech Risks from a
Planner's Perspective
Scira Menoni
Nature Life Values and
Products
Britt-Marie Drottz-Sjöberg
New Methods of Risk
Assessment for Insurance Strategy: Ukrainian Case
Dr. Naoum Borodianskii
New Numerical Procedure
for Calculating Societal Risk from Road Transport of Dangerous
Substances, A
P. Leonelli and G. Spadoni
Novel Approach to Field
Monitoring for Use in Risk Assessment: A Case Study on
Organohalogen Formation from Domestic Hypochlorite Bleach,
Involving Participation of a Small Community, A
F. Racioppi, D. Schowanek, E. Matthijs, R. Boyko, M. Gabba,
A.Buschini, and G. P. Gardini
Nuclear Legacy of
Russia: Aging of Professional Society As One of the Key
Components of Risk Management
A F. Nechaev and V. V. Projaev
Optimised Regret
Avoidance: Does It Matter What Policy-Makers Think About the
Environment?
Peter Read
Options for Decision
Makers--Recovery Actions After a Nuclear Accident
N. A. Higgins and K. A. Jones
Outline of Industrial
Risk Assessment Methods, An
R. Clark
Perceived Food Risk:
Personal and General
Lennart Sjöberg
Perceived Risk from a
Manmade Invisible Threat Compared to the Perceived Risk of Other
Hazards, and Data Gathering Format When Studying Threat
Perception
Arnfinn Tønnessen
Perceived Risks in
France: Contribution to a European Cross-Cultural Perspective
C. M. Mays and J. Brenot
Perception of Risk
Assessment and Risk Management Applications in the Former Soviet
Union (FSU) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Recent
Training Sessions in Risk Assessment
Robin D. Smith and Lawrence Houlden
Pesticide Concentration
in the Environment at the Health Resorts in the South Part of
Ukraine
N.P. Osokina, S.O. Mogilny, and T.G. Mogilnaja
Planning and Risk
Management: A Study of Large Scale Complexes
Erik Wirén
Policy-making in Times
of Conflict and Uncertainty
Jacquie Reilly and Jenny Kitzinger
Policy Process Towards
Discursive Procedures on Assessing the Risks of Genetically
Modified Organisms, The
René von Schomberg
Practical Study of Toxic
Gas Emergency Blowout and Dispersion
Dr. A. Yedigarov, Prof. G. Odisharia, Dr. V. Safonov, and Dr.
A. Shvyryaev
Preference Construction
and Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Risk: A Case Study on
Bathing Water Quality
Ian H. Langford, Stavros Georgiou, Ian J. Bateman, and
Anné-Lise McDonald
Psychosomatic
Technological Risk & Its Assessment and Management
J. Pop-Jordanov and N. Pop-Jordanova
Public Misperception of
Hazard and Risk (Lunchtime Speech)
John D. Graham
Quality and Risk
Eduardas Davidavicius and Asta Cesuniene
Quantifying Risk and
Anomalous Behaviour Within Monitoring and Investment Problems
Peter Grindrod and David Waters
Quantitative Risk
Assessment of Chemicals: The Problem or the Panacea?
David P. Lovell and Gail Thomas
Radiation Risk: Risk
Perception and Communication (RISKPERCOM)
Lennart Sjöberg
Radiological Risk
Perception: Spanish Results of a Cross-Cultural Survey
Ana Prades, Rosario Martinez-Arias, Rosario Solá, and Ana
Lena Cebrián
Reactions to Siting a
Waste Facility in the Neighbourhood: A Study Among Neighbours of
Waste Facilities in the Netherlands
Mirjam Galetzka
Reasons for Accepting
and Rejecting Prospecting of a Nuclear Waste Repository - The
Swedish Community of Storuman
Britt Marie Drottz-Sjöberg
Recent Developments in
Major Accident Hazard Regulation in the European Union
Tom Horlick-Jones, Nick Pidgeon, Bruna De Marchi, and Ana
Prades Lopez
Reflections on Risk
Management at National Level, Considering Civilian Aspects of the
Gulf War and the Balkan Wars
Christer Widgren
Responsibility and
Research for a Wise Use of the Deep Ocean
Hjalmar Thiel
Results of a Study of
Risk Perception in Six Central European Countries
T. Fletcher, K. Jones, D. Ball, F. Woudenberg, E. Lebret, and
CESAR Principal Investigators' Team
Risk Analysis, Risk
Assessment, Animal Health and International Trade
M. Wooldridge
Risk and Conflict:
Policy and Practice in the Facilitation of Innovation
Joyce Tait
Risk and Incineration:
The Public Context
J. Petts
Risk and Insurance of
Transporting Dangerous Loads by the Railway in Russia
A. N. Yelokhin and A. N. Chernoplekov
Risk and Responsibility
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer
Risk and Responsibility
Under the European Framework Directive
B. N. Barrett
Risk Assessment Versus
Risk Management in the Transport Industry
Nigel J. Brace and Julian Franey
Risk Communication in
East Europe: Russia As an Example
S.M. Nikitin and K. Bruckmeier
Risk Management on the
Territorial Level in Russia
E. A. Kozlov, A. N. Yelokhin, A. N. Chernoplekov, and A. A.
Malyi
Risk Management Research
Funded by the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: An
Overview
J.E. Ince and C.E. Fisher
Risk Management
Strategies for Urban Infrastructure
Professor Rae Zimmerman
Risk of Falling Ill with
Cerebrovascular Diseases for People Being Exposed to the
Influence of Ionized Radiation Under the Production Conditions,
The
A.Y. Bushmanov, A.L. Merzlyakov, and K.F. Vasiliev
Risk of Pathogenic
Survival Through Disinfection, The
Michael Wilson, Peter Johnson, Nick Sutherland, John Strutt,
and Keith Allsop
Risk of Smoking As
Perceived by Women Smokers
Daniela Kolarova
Risk Perceptions and
Cultural Biases in Norfolk
C. Marris, T. O'Riordan, and I. Langford
Risk Perceptions and
National Identity: Between East and West, the Case of Estonia
I. Prokhorova
Risk Prevention and
Crisis Management: Learning from Experience
S. Gaultier-Gaillard
Risk, Ruin, and Luxury
in Primitive Societies
U. Ulrich Müller-Herold and R. P. Sieferle
Risk Stories in the News
-- Who Cares?
Olle Findahl
Risk Taking Versus Risk
Aversion in Industrial Organisations: Some Contrasting Cases from
Sweden
Ragnar Löfstedt and Tom Horlick-Jones
Risk, Time and the
Discount Rate.
Tim Jackson
Risk: Too Limited a
Concept for Effective Communication?
J. Petts
Risk, Trust and Loyalty:
Putting Risk Perceptions in Their Place
Peter Simmons, Gordon Walker, Alan Irwin, and Brian Wynne
Risk, Trust and
Political Process: Some Comments from Recent Social Theory
Gavan McDonell
Role of Emotion in
Public Information on Environmental Risks and Pro-Environmental
Behaviour
Anneloes Meijnders, Cees Midden, and Henk Wilke
Role of Procedural and
Outcome Fairness in Siting Solid Waste Facilities in the Black
Forest, The
0. Renn, S. Köberle, B. Oppermann, and R. Carius
Role of Risk Analysis in
Onshore & Offshore Energy Insurance, The
D.J. Lloyd
Safety Risk Management
System
J. M. Greben
Safety Status, Job
Situation and Perceived Risk in Norwegian and UK Offshore Workers
- A Comparative Study
Torbjørn Rundmo, Kathryn Mearns, Rhona Flin, Mark Fleming,
and Rachael Gordon
Selecting and Using
Indicators to Describe Risk
Philip C. R. Gray
Service by Wire: A Risk
Analysis Model for Remote Maintenance and Repair
P. Anderson and S. Kowalski
Siting Conflicts: A
Constructionist Approach
Catherine Zwetkoff
Social Management of the
Risks of Modern Biotechnology
P. R. Wheale
Social Risk, Social
Security, Social Fairness
L. MacKellar
Source Path Approach to
Assessment of Risk
A.C. Scougall and W.J. Nimmo-Scott
Spatial Domains of
Environmental Risk Perception
G.D. Gooch
Strategic Use of 'Risk'
in Gene Technology: The European Rabies Eradication Programme
Ruth McNally
Study of Food Risk
Perception and Its Relation to Purchasing Behaviour, A
F. Bolger, A. G. Sutcliffe, P. Ayton, and P. Sparks
System Approach to Human
Factors (HF) As One of the Main Sources of Potential Hazard from
Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) for Population End Environment (10
years after accident on Chernobyl NPP)
O.V. Andreev, V.A. Eremenko, and V.F. Sharov
TEES Risk Management
Project - New Challenges and Approaches, The
Ray Kemp, Peter Lisle, and David Salmon
Three Decades of Risk
Research: Accomplishments and New Challenges (Opening Plenary
Speech)
Ortwin Renn
Three Dimensions of
Occupational Risk
Horst Rakel
Toxicity:
Identification, Evaluation and Risk Reduction in Developing
Countries to Achieve Chemical Safety
Mervyn L. Richardson
Transboundary Risk and
Its Perception: What Can Be Learned from the Post-Normal Science
Approach
N. Castells and J.R. Ravetz
Trust and Risk
Communication on Food Issues
R. Shepherd, L.J. Frewer, and C. Howard
Uncertainty and
Variability in Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Accidental
Releases of Toxic Chemical
G. Marsili, L. Lauria, and M.E. Soggiu
Understanding
Environmental Risk Perception in Poland: Theory and Practice
Piotr Matczak and Krzysztof S. Pachocki
Understanding Lay
Perceptions of Dam-Related Risks
M.L. Lima and D. Silva
Understanding of Risk
Perceptions Associated with Different Food-Processing
Technologies -- A Case Study Using Conjoint Analysis
C. Howard, L. J. Frewer, and R. Shepherd
Understanding Why a Risk
Is Feared: The Saliency of a Risk Message and the Motivation to
Respond
R. Godfrey, S. Dunwoody, K. Bro, and M. Kanarek
Use of Dietary Intake
Analysis in International Standard Setting, The
D. R. Tennant
Use of Semi-Quantitative
Risk Estimation Techniques with Machinery, The
Nicola Worsell, Jill Wilday, and Tom Treble
Walking the Post-Normal
Science of Risk Back Home to First Principles: Issues in
Definition and Theoretical Method
Eugene A. Rosa
What Defines Public
Attitudes to Genetic Engineering in Food Production?
L J. Frewer, C. Howard, and R. Shepherd
What Do Managers Worry
About? Risk Perception and Culture in the UK Chemical Industry
Clive Smallman
Whose Risk? What Risk?
Mayer Hillman
Why Don't We Use More
Probabilistic Models in Risk Management?
Jean-Pierre Galland
Young People's
Understanding of Chemicals in Food
Richard Eiser, Christine Eiser, and Neil S. Coulson