ABSTRACT
The history of risk analysis as a formal field shows interdisciplinary-oriented scientists collaborating to increase knowledge within specialty areas and to build linkages among them in order to help society understand and manage threats to the public and environment. Looking forward, and admittedly without a crystal ball or clairvoyance, I feel confident that the community of risk scientists will press on with these objectives. Elsewhere, my colleagues and I have written about the future of risk assessment (Greenberg et al. 2015), focusing on issues that are briefly reviewed in Chapter 2 and I believe are resolvable without sacrificing the scientific integrity of the field. What I am saying is that I believe that issues that are controllable by risk analysis professionals will be worked through, not always to the optimum benefit of the public as a whole, but at least human health and ecological scientific information will be at or close to the core of decision-making rather than driven out to the margins. In this final brief chapter, I describe my deep concern about two trends that
were briefly touched on in a 2011 editorial (Greenberg 2011) and are largely not controllable by risk analysts. Elsewhere I have written a short paper that overlaps some of the themes in this chapter for a public health audience (Greenberg 2014a).
Globalization of risk
