Environmental risks and hazards.

Includes bibliographies and index

Isn't anyplace safe anymore?; Natural hazards research; Disaster studies: an analysis of the social historical factors affecting the development of research in the area; Risk analysis and risk management: an historical perspective; Social benefit versus technological risk; Paths to risk analysis; Natural hazards in human ecological perspective: hypotheses and models; Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters; A contextual model of natural hazard; The social amplification of risk: a conceptual framework; Bringing social theory to hazards research; En-gendered fears: femininity and technological risk perception; Perception of risks; Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why?; Human adjustment to the risk of environmental extremes; Public response to earthquake hazard information; Evacuation behaviour in response to nuclear power plant accidents; Risk asssessment and comparisons: an introduction; Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabilistic risk assessment; Science and its limits: the regulator's dilemma; Risk assessment and regulatory priorities; Success, strain and surprise; The chronic technical disaster: toward a social scientific perspective; Health effects of environmental chemicals; Emergency planning for chemical agent releases; Vulnerability to global environmental change; Chasing a specter: risk management for global environmental change; The social space of terror: towards a civil interpretation of total war; The dignity of risk