Title: Risk management in post-trust societies /
Authors: Löfstedt, Ragnar.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Risk management.; Trust.
Abstract: "Most policy-makers still use outdated methods - developed at a time before health scares like BSE, genetically modified organisms and dioxin in Belgian chicken feed eroded public confidence in industry and government - to communicate policies and achieve their objectives. Good risk communication is still possible, however. In this book, through the use of a host of case studies from four countries, the author identifies a series of methods that should work in a post-trust society."--Jacket.
Contents: Foreword / George Cvetkovich -- 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. A review of the four risk management strategies -- 3. Germany and the waste incinerator in the north Black Forest -- 4. Risk management in the United States : the case of International Paper's hydro-dam re-licensing procedure -- 5. Sweden : Barseback, risk management and trust -- 6. Risk management in the UK : the case of Brent Spar -- 7. Conclusions : integrating trust into risk management.