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The true radiation risk from commercial flying has nothing to do with security scans. A radiation expert explains how much cancer risk the most frequent of flyers take on when they take to the skies.
A comprehensive analysis of Tasmania’s natural disaster risks has identified bushfire as the biggest threat, alongside emerging issues such as disease epidemics and heatwaves.
The Empire didn’t see X-wings firing proton torpedos into an exhaust port as a problem. Perhaps they’d have benefited from better systems analysis.
If women in developing countries are to enjoy the benefits of access to banking, it’s time for a rethink on how they are assessed for risk.
We need to carefully assess nanomaterials to ensure their safety, but there are questions over whether the existing practice of risk assessment is up to the task.
Our natural difficulties in thinking about the future, low probabilities and considering risk make many of our views about nuclear power problematic.
I once told a journalist that “the very fact that a piece of health research appears in the newspapers indicates that it is nonsense”. That may be too harsh, so I would like to suggest a slightly more…
When new health threats emerge, the media is often accused of hyping up the risk to the public. But we tend to believe that health experts provide rational, independent viewpoints on the real risks posed…
Researchers in the United States have developed a new model to predict women’s risk of developing breast, uterine and ovarian cancer, based on individual lifestyle factors. These three cancers make up…
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Professor, Disaster & Emergency Management, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies & Director, CIFAL York, York University, Canada
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Psychologist and Faculty Member, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor, Department of Psychology, MacEwan University
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Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Director (International) - Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Geoscientist, University of Exeter
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Professor of Ocean Leadership, University of Tromsø
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Senior Manager, Descriptive Epidemiology, Cancer Council Queensland
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Tomas Remenyi is a Friend of The Conversation.
Climate Research Fellow, Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania
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Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge
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Public health doctor and Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor, Social Innovation, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor at the Implementation Science & Practice Advances Research Center, UMass Chan Medical School
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor in Human Factors, Heriot-Watt University