Popularising Risk Assessments

I am currently involved in a project examining how to communicate risk on complex issues to the general public

the website below is DG Sanco's "popularising risk assessments" page containing risk assessments on several areas from tooth whitening to nanoscience. these are interesting to read in themselves and raise a lot of interesting questions about the effect of information and message framing on perceptions and behaviour.


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NanoScience and EU Health

A nice resource below on different aspects of risk communication, risk perception and use of nanoscience in an EU context from a conference hosted by DG Sanco last year.

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religion and attitudes to nanotechnology

the development and use of nanotechnology is likely to be central to one of the most interesting debates of our time. the bbc report below on a paper from nature nanotechnology examining the role of religion and culture in determining attitudes to nanotech

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