Introduction – Risk, uncertainty and policy: towards a social-dialectical understanding Patrick R. Brown and Anna Olofsson
1. Nuclear power in China after Fukushima: understanding public knowledge, attitudes, and trust Guizhen He, Arthur P.J. Mol, Lei Zhang and Yonglong Lu
2. The ‘new social contract’ and the individualisation of risk in policy Myra Hamilton
3. Towards a global governance of risks: international health organisations and the surveillance of emerging infectious diseases Muriel Figuié
4. Risks and political responses to climate change in Brazilian coastal cities Fabiana Barbi and Leila da Costa Ferreira
5. Unravelling science-policy interactions in environmental risk governance of the Baltic Sea: comparing fisheries and eutrophication Sebastian Linke, Michael Gilek, Mikael Karlsson and Oksana Udovyk
6. Risk policies and risk perceptions: a comparative study of environmental health risk policy and perception in six European countries Christian Bröer, Gerben Moerman, Pita Spruijt and Ric van Poll
Biography
Patrick Brown is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His recent work includes Making Health Policy, and Trusting on the Edge.
Anna Olofsson is Professor in Sociology and Director of Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Oestersund, Sweden. Her research interests include intersectional risk theory and methodologies.
