Miscellaneous Issues

+ 22 April 2009 keynote lecture in Cold Lake, AB entitled "Mobilizing the North:
Expectation Management, Techno-Social Considerations, and Environmental Protection."

+ Download the Cold Lake presentation (.pdf)
+ Radio interview on the State of the West, 28 March 2008 (.mp2)
+ Despite immigrant influx, few signs of political shift in Canada's west - Financial Post
+ Review of Richard Clark's book Health Care and Notions of Risk
+ Risk & the drug industry (Financial Times of London, 1 August 2005 - Part 1 (.pdf) Part 2 (.pdf)
+ CBC TV news on political spin, 24 March 2005 (.mpg)
+ Balancing the books on social cohesion, Science and Public Policy, Feb.2005 (.ppt)
+ The risks we face: How should we weigh the risks & benefits of daily life?
+ Risk assessment: Developing a post-normal science approach (AACC 2002, Montreal) (.ppt)
+ Environmental attitudes and Sept 11. (New York Times, 29 September 2002)
+ The social construction of science, risk and expertise
+ Environmental sociology: Theory and practice
+ Regulatory efficiency and the role of risk assessment
+ When is it appropriate to use the precautionary principle? (.ppt)
+ View a presentation on the relationship between
the precautionary principle and risk analysis (.wmv)

+ Macro-sociological perspective on risk
+ Risk and sustainable development: Towards "sustainable risk"
+ Sustainable risk: The concept fleshed out
+ Bin Laden games, masks, on sale in Saskatoon
+ Press release: Study shows marijuana laws too strict (.doc)