1 He died on 21 February 2013, after the book was finished but before it was published.

2 See Rosa, Eugene A., et al., “Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste?”, 329 Science (2010), pp. 762 et sqq., CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed Rosa, Eugene A., “Background Comments to the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.” Presentation to the Blue Ribbon Commission America's Nuclear Future, Washington, D.C., 1 February 2011.Google Scholar

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4 See McCright, Aaron M. and Dunlap, Riley E., “Anti–Reflexivity: The American Conservative Movement's Success in Undermining Climate Science and Policy,: 27 Theory, Culture, and Society (2010) pp. 100 et sqq. Google Scholar

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6 See William D. Ruckelshaus, Science, Risk and Public Policy (Speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 22 June 1983).

7 See Rosa, Eugene A., “Metatheoretical Foundations for Post–Normal Risk,” 1 Journal of Risk Research (1998) pp. 15 et sqq Google Scholar., Terje Aven, et al., “On the ontological status of the concept of risk,” 49 Safety Science (2011) p. 1074 et sqq.

8 By my rough estimate about half a million times per year every year for decades.

9 See Dietz, Thomas, “Epistemology, Ontology, and the Practice of Structural Human Ecology”, in Thomas Dietz & Andrew K. Jorgenson (eds.) Structural Human Ecology: Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability (Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 2013), pp. 31 et sqq Google Scholar.

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13 U.S. National Research Council Public Participation, supra

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