ABSTRACT

This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part aims to examine American risk management strategies and practices at regional, state, and local levels. It argues that national governments often seek consensus via public-information campaigns and outlines a plan for categorizing and assessing such campaigns. The part proposes the compilation of risk profiles for developing countries and the exchange of information to fill and identifies gaps in knowledge about specific risks. Society has made progress in identifying and measuring a wide range of risks. The rub comes in accommodating, regulating, and managing risks. In understanding this difficulty, a key question is how risk assessments are translated into policy and why this process is so often unsuccessful. Risk management institutions. To understand why risks are handled and perceived as they are, it is important to look not only to information, but to other institutions.