Journal of Hazardous Materials 2001: Vol 86 Table of Contents

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CONTENTS
Special Issue: Risk and Governance
Preface
Safety in the globalising knowledge economy: an analysis by paradoxes
J.R. Ravetz (London, UK)
The risk game
P. Slovic (Eugene, OR, USA)
Regulating safety in an unsafe world (risk reduction for and with communities)
P. Barnes (Brisbane, Australia)
Risk as social process: the end of ‘the age of appealing to the facts’?
S. Healy (Sydney, Australia)
Science and precaution in the appraisal of electricity supply options
A. Stirling (East Sussex, UK)
Prospects for public participation on nuclear risks and policy options: innovations in
governance practices for sustainable development in the European Union
M. O’Connor and S. van den Hove (Guyancourt, France)
Chains of damages and failures in a metropolitan environment: some observations on the
Kobe earthquake in 1995
S. Menoni (Milano, Italy)
Increasingly intolerable boundaries: future control of environmental pollution
J. Scanlon (Ottawa, Canada)
Chemical safety and governance in Brazil
C.M. de Freitas, M.F.S. Porto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), N.B.B. de Freitas (Sao Paulo,
Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), F. Pivetta (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), A.S. Arcuri (Sao
Paulo, Brazil), J.C. Moreira and J.M.H. Machado (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Mining conflicts, environmental justice, and valuation
J. Martinez-Alier (Belaterra Barcelona, Spain)
Incentives for mitigation investment and more effective risk management: the need for
public-private partnerships
H. Kunreuther (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
The role of risk assessments in the governance of genetically modified organisms in
agriculture
R. Strand (Bergen, Norway)
Democracy and the governance of uncertainty. The case of agricultural gene technologies
L. Pellizzoni (Trieste, Italy and Gorizia, Italy)
From irreversibility to participation: towards a participatory foresight for the governance of
collective environmental risks
S. Faucheux and C. Hue (Guyancourt, France)
Present challenges to risk governance
G.F. Heriard-Dubreuil (Paris, France)
Author Index Volume 86
Subject Index Volume 86