The Social Contours Of Risk: Volume 2: Risk Analysis, Corporations And The Globalization Of Risk (the Earthscan Risk In Society Series) (v. 2)

Risk, Society and Policy Series The Social Contours of Risk: Volume II: Risk Analysis, Corporations and the Globalization of Risk Risk, Society and Policy Series The Social Contours of Risk: Volume II: Risk Analysis, Corporations and the Globalization of Risk Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger E. Kasperson, with contributors with the assistance of Mimi Berberian and Lu Ann Pacenka London • Sterling, VA First published by Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2005 Copyright © Roger Kasperson, 2005 All rights reserved ISBN: 1-84407-175-8 paperback 1-84407-176-6 hardback Typesetting by Mapset Ltd, Gateshead, UK Printed and bound in the UK by Cromwell Press, Trowbridge Cover design by Yvonne Booth For a full list of publications please contact: Earthscan 8–12 Camden High Street London, NW1 0JH, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7387 8558 Fax: +44 (0)20 7387 8998 Email: [email protected] Web: www.earthscan.co.uk 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-2012, USA Earthscan is an imprint of James and James (Science Publishers) Ltd and publishes in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The social contours of risk / by Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger E. Kasperson, with contributors, with the assistance of Mimi Berberian and Lu Ann Pacenka. p. cm. – (Risk, society, and policy series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-84407-073-5 (v. 1 : pbk.) – ISBN 1-84407-072-7 (v. 1 : hardback) – ISBN 1-84407-175-8 (v. 2 : pbk.) – ISBN 1-84407-176-6 (v. 2 : hardback) 1. Risk–Sociological aspects. 2. Environmental risk assessment. I. Kasperson, Jeanne X. II. Kasperson, Roger E. III. Series. HM1101.S635 2005 302'12–dc22 2005003307 Printed on elemental chlorine-free paper Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations vii ix x xi xii Introduction and Overview by Roger E. Kasperson 1 PART 1 RISK AND SOCIETY: FRAMING THE ISSUES 1 Acceptability of Human Risk Roger E. Kasperson 19 2 Societal Response to Hazards and Major Hazard Events: Comparing Natural and Technological Hazards Roger E. Kasperson and K. David Pijawka 29 3 Large-scale Nuclear Risk Analysis: Its Impacts and Future Roger E. Kasperson, James E. Dooley, Bengt Hansson, Jea