The Perception of Risks of Technology

摘要: What makes us perceive some risks as large and others small? Why can be accepted or tolerated not? These are questions which have become quite important in several sectors of society. People demand risk mitigation at a level has not been foreseen by experts politicians. If kind technological economic development reached certain level, there may commitments hard to phase out deal with politically. Important examples nuclear power genetically modified food. In cases, political conflicts yet evolved although they do so near future. It is therefore prepared good time. Mobile telephones an example. Radiation both from receivers transmitters frequently discussed possible hazard (Siegrist et al., 2005).