Table of Contents

One Risk Perception Research — An Introduction.- Two Nuclear Power and the Public: A Comparative Study of Risk Perception in France and the United States.- Three Cross-cultural Studies on the Perception and Evaluation of Hazards.- Four Risk Perception in Bulgaria and Romania.- Five The Cognitive Architecture of Risk: Pancultural Unity or Cultural Shaping?.- Six Cross-Cultural Risk Perception Research: State and Challenges.- List of editors and contributors.

Reviews

'This is a highly valuable book. The vast and comprehensive empirical data involved and nontrivial findings of the book provide a significant contribution to understanding risk perception in international perspective [
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, June (2002)