Understanding how people interpret risks and choose actions based on their interpretations
is vital to any strategy for disaster reduction. We review relevant literature with the aim of …

The present review examined the importance of trust when preparing for and during a
pandemic. The reviewed literature suggests that trust in health agencies positively …

This study presents a detailed investigation of public scepticism about climate change in
Britain using the trend, attribution, and impact scepticism framework of Rahmstorf (2004) …

If uncontrolled, human influences on the climate system may generate changes that will
endanger various aspects of life on Earth. The precise implications of the scientific claims …

This review of studies of trust in risk management was designed, in part, to examine the
relations between the reviewed research and the consensus model of trust that has recently …

Climate-related catastrophes, such as the 2003 floods and heatwaves in Europe, the 2005
hurricanes in the US, Mexico and Cuba, and the persistent droughts and floods in Africa …

Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing concepts and techniques to
achieve specific behavioural goals relevant to the social good. Social marketing approaches …

Although there is ample empirical evidence that trust in risk regulation is strongly related to
the perception and acceptability of risk, it is less clear what the direction of this relationship …

This paper discusses how people's interpretation of their experience of volcanic hazards
and public volcanic hazard education programs influences their risk perception and whether …

The BSE epidemic, GM foods, avian flu, the growth of supermarkets and the crisis in obesity
have shaken consumer trust in food. Uncovering surprising differences between countries …