Perspectives on the 'lens of risk' interview series: Interview with Nick Pidgeon

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-127

  Heyman, Bob ^a   Brown, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

risk; risk analysis; risk perception; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENGINEERING; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PUBLISHING; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGIST; SOCIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84859389985     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2012.661845     Document Type: Article

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