The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk

Risk Analysis Example.- Public Perception and Response to the Parkfield California Earthquake Prediction.- Preliminary Analysis of Off-Normal Emissions from a Hazardous Waste Incinerator.- Estimating Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators.- The Role of Structure-Activity Relationships in Risk Assessment.- A Framework for Computer Security Risk Management.- The Rules of the Game: What Recent Rulings Say About Courts' and Regulators' Differing Approaches to Establishing Causation for Chronic Health Risks.- Determinants of Severity in Acutely Hazardous Chemical Releases.- The 1988 Ashland Oil Spill: Lessons Learned Regarding Emergency Response Planning for Hazmat Releases.- Potential Uses and Abuses of Toxic Release Inventory Data.- Robust Estimation of Lung Retention in Animals Exposed to a-Emitting Radionuclides.- Dispositional Differences of 2, 3, 7, S-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in Rats and Humans: Implications in Cancer Mechanisms and Risk Assessment.- The Risk Analysis of Extreme Events in Queuing Theory.- On the Inclusion of Organizational and Managerial Influences in Probabilistic Safety Assessments of Nuclear Power Plants.- Risk Communication and Regulatory Culture Clash.- Bridging the Gap Between Risk Assessment by Professionals and Acceptance by Lay Decision Makers.- Acceptability of Risk: Vinyl Chloride and RCRA Subtitle D, Potential Decision Framework.- Consistent Estimates of Urethane Carcinogenic Potency Using Pharmacokinetic and Time-Dependent Models.- Carcinogenic Impurities in Food and Color Additives-An Analysis of Presumptive Risk Levels.- Decision Theory, Failure Tolerance Analysis, and Quantitative Risk Analysis -Synergistic Application to the Space Station Freedom WP-2 Program.- Sources and Consequences of Hypothetical Bias in Economic Analyses of Risk Behavior.- Establishing Communication with Brookhurst: A Case Study in Community Involvement.- Accepting New Technology: Community Relations for Mobile Incineration in Illinois.- Evaluation of Analytical Methods in Water for the Chemicals Listed Under the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65).- Use of Health Risk Estimates in U.S. EPA Activities.- The Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment in the Continuing Risk Management of a Chlorine Handling Facility.- Ozone Risk Assessment Implementation: Transferring Risk Analysis Technology to Ozone Nonattainment Planning.- Acute Ozone Exposure-Response Relationships for Use in Health Risk Assessment.- Risk-Benefit Balancing in Risk Management: Measures of Benefits and Detriments.- Risk Assessment of Soil-Related Foundation Failure.- Estimating Mine Equipment Injury Rates.- Ecological Models for Risk Assessment/Risk Management.- Science Quality and Risk Assessment: The Leaking Landfill.- Risk Assessment-Risk Management: The Need for a Synthesis.- Application of an Urban-Scale Population Exposure Model (NEM/SAI) to Ozone Exposure Assessment.- New Approaches and Tools for Quantitative Cancer Risk Assessment.- Statistical Properties of a Model-Free Approach to Low-Dose Extrapolation.- Author Index.