Articles
Recent articles include:
Kyoto Protocol Archive
- Alberta Kyoto A win-win climate action plan
- Alberta’s Made in Washington Climate Change Action Plan
- All bets are off the table
- Contributions to the Kyoto Debate, part 9
- Dead in the water on climate change
- No Kyoto Means No Solution
- Kyoto and Beyond The Citizen’s Dilemma
- Kyoto is Dead
- Kyoto What about the Risk
- Kyoto Whoppers
- Why Canada should ratify Kyoto
BSE Archive
- BSE Risk in Canada: Finally, the Penny Drops
- BSE Risk In Canada, Part 2: Current Methods Of Testing For Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
- BSE Risk In Canada, Part 3: Two Stinking Cows – And The Way Forward For Canada
- What went wrong in the BSE file
Presentations (PPT files)
- Inaugural Lecture
- The Risk Management Approach to Public Health Risks (2008)
- Risk Management of Carbon Capture and Storage (2009)
- Management of Health and Environmental Risks, with a Case Study of Pandemic Influenza (2009)
- Black Holes of Risk: Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector (2009)
Other
- A Risk Management Masquerade
- Catastrophic risks: reflections on the domination of nature
- Critical theory and its future
- Decision Failure
- Donor deferral risk assessment
- Dual Role of Science
- Future management of used nuclear fuel in Canada
- Nuclear Liability
- Ozone and climate
- Parks Canada: Backcountry avalanche risk review
- Present Value of political promises
- Risk management and precaution: insights on the cautious use of evidence
- Risk Management of Carbon Capture and Storage (2009)
- Smart regulation and risk management
- Tale of two food risks
- The Case for Mandatory Labeling of GM Foods
- The idea of risk and its relevance to genomics
- The risks of policy choices: the war in Iraq and the doctrine of pre-emption
Science: Up Close and Personal
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Other Links
- EMCOM Health Effects from Endocrine Disruptors
- Herbert Marcuse
- OECD Assessing the Options: NWMO Assessment Team Report June 2004
- Policynut Virtual Home of Dr. Michael Mehta
- Review of Risk Society William Leiss, review of Ulrich Beck, Risk Society
- Richard Smith
- RSC Royal Society of Canada
- SFU's Andrew Feenberg