An Introduction to Mental Modeling -- Part I. The Mental Modeling Approach -- Mental Modeling Research Technical Approach -- Science of Mental Modeling -- Part II. Applications at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) -- Flood Risk Management -- Adaptive Management for Climate Change --...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The Context of Risk Communication -- 1.2 The Goals of Risk Communication -- 1.3 The Goals of Communication Recipients -- 1.4 Criticisms of Risk Communication -- 1.5 How People Think about Risk and...

Research communities across multiple disciplines have demonstrated an increasing concern about variations in the performance of social-ecological systems. In response to this concern, holistic research on resilience explores explanations for the performance of the systems under both predictable...

This paper reviews implementation of the risk management frameworks used by eight federal and foreign agencies - including the Minerals Management Service (MMS, now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, or BOEMRE) - and summarizes the features of a robust tolerable...