Trust, emotion, sex, politics, and science: surveying the risk-assessment battlefield

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<abstract displayLabel="Summary">Risk management has become increasingly politicized and contentious. Polarized views, controversy, and conflict have become pervasive. Research has begun to provide a new perspective on this problem by demonstrating the complexity of the concept "risk" and the inadequacies of the tradicional view of risk assessment as a purely scientific enterprise. This paper argues that danger is real, but risk is socially constructed. Risk assessment is inherently subjective and represents a blending of science and judgment with important psychological, social, cultural, and political factors. In addition, our social and democratic institutions, remarkable as they are in many respects, breed distrust in the risk arena. Whoever controls the definition of risk controls the rational solution to the problem at hand.</abstract>
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<title>Risk analysis : an international journal</title>
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<text>Vol. 19, nº 4, Agosto, 1999 ; p. 689-700</text>
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