Risk Perceptions And Environmental Policy
The literature on the relationship between risk perceptions and environmental policy is extensive - exhaustive, even. See this, or this, or this. But here is the best analysis of risk perceptions and policy outcomes I've ever seen - and its from the Onion. With climate change and TSCA reform on the legislative agenda, and EPA issuing rafts of new regulations, the use of risk to justify governmental action is an issue of major significance. Check out the video.
