Trust in risk management : uncertainty and scepticism in the public mind / edited by Michael Siegrist, Timothy C. Earle, and Heinz Gutscher.

"First published by Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2007"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trust, risk perception, and the TCC model of cooperation / Timothy C. Earle, Michael Siegrist and Heinz Gutscher -- Social identity and the group context of trust : managing risk and building trust through belonging / Michael A. Hogg -- Trust and risk : implications for management / Eric M. Uslaner -- A social judgement analysis of trust : people as intuitive detection theorists / Mathew P. White and J. Richard Eiser -- Scepticism, reliance and risk managing institutions : towards a conceptual model of "critical trust" / Nick Pidgeon, Wouter Poortinga and John Walls -- Societal trust in risk analysis : implications for the interface of risk assessment and risk management / Lynn Frewer and Brian Salter -- Rebuilding consumer trust in the context of a food crisis / Lucia Savadori ... [and others] -- Trust and risk in smallpox vaccination / Ann Bostrom and Emily Atkinson -- The what, how and when of social reliance and cooperative risk management / George Cvetkovich and Patricia L. Winter -- Getting out of the swamp : towards understanding sources of local officials' trust in wetlands management / Branden B. Johnson -- Antecedents of system trust : cues and process feedback / Peter de Vries, Cees Midden and Anneloes Meijnders -- Trust and confidence in crisis communication : three case studies / Michael Siegrist, Heinz Gutscher and Carmen Keller.

Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. The authors draw on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies on topics such as mobile phone technology, well-known food accidents and crises, wetland management, smallpox vaccination, cooperative risk management of US forests and the disposal of the Brent Spar oil drilling platform. The book int.