Risk Decision and Policy
Volume 4 , Number 1, April 1999

CONTENTS

Technical articles

ANTHONY G. PATT

Extreme outcomes: the strategic treatment of low probability events in scientific
assessments 1

ELIZABETH ATHERTON AND SIMON FRENCH
Valuing the future: an application of hyperbolic discounting with time weights 17

KRISTINE M. KUHN, DAVID V. BUDESCU, JAMES R. HERSHEY,
KAREN M. KRAMER AND ADRIAN K. RANTILLA

Attribute tradeoffs in low probability/high consequence risks: the joint effects of
dimension preference and vagueness 31


Teaching symposium

P.G. BENNETT, D.G. COLES, A. MCDONALD, S. FRENCH AND J. MAULE
Improving risk communication: a programme of work in The Department of Health 47

JACK DOWIE 57
Against risk

Book review 75

Diary 77

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Risk Decision and Policy

Volume. 4, Number. 2, August 1999
CONTENTS

Technical articles

JAMES C. FELLI AND GORDON B. HAZEN

Do sensitivity analyses really capture problem sensitivity? An empirical analysis
based on information value 79


RACHEL T.A. CROSON AND MELANIE BETH MARKS
The effect of heterogeneous valuation for threshold public goods: an experimental
study 99


JOHN FOX
Will it happen? Can it happen? A new approach to formal risk analysis 117

VINCENT PLACER AND PHILIPPE DELQUIE

Measures of social risk perception and demand for risk reduction: an experimental
comparison 129

Survey

NICK PIDGEON

Risk communication and the social amplification of risk: theory, evidence and policy
implications 145

Diary 161

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