Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is still one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democracies. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk outlines the crucial role of risk management in dealing with public controversies and analyses risk communication practice to provide a set of lessons for risk managers and communicators. This second edition adds new case studies on mad cow disease in North America, climate change and genetic technologies. The first of the new case studies brings the story of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)...
Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is still one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western dem...
Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Yet this energy produces hazardous, long-lived waste that emits dangerous radioactivity for tens of thousands of years.
Nuclear waste, stored temporarily for decades, must be safely disposed of so it will not pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. This means placing it in locations deep underground in granite, sedimentary rock, or clay. Canada’s ideal location is somewhere on the Canadian Shield, the...
Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Ye...
