Editor - Dr Ragnar E Löfstedt, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
Book Review Editor - Jonathan Sime, University of Surrey
SRA-Europe News Editor - Graham Long, University of Surrey
Associate Editors - Louis Goossens, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Philippe Hubert, Institute for Nuclear Protection and Safety,France
Saburo Ikeda, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Roger Kasperson - Clark University, USA
Lennart Sjoberg - Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Editorial Board
Mike Barrett - Safety and Reliability Society
Esko Blocker - Environmental Protection Agency, The Netherlands
Ann Bostrom - Georgia Tech, USA
Martin Brustlein - Hoffman La Roche, Switzerland
Robin Cantor - Law and Consulting Group Inc, USA
Britt-Marie Drottz Sjoberg - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Rhona Flin - Aberdeen University, UK
Lynn Frewer - Institute for Food Research, UK
Dennis Hemon - INSERM, France
Hirotada Hirose - Tokyo Women's Christian University, Japan
Ray Kemp - Dames & Moore, UK
Wolfgang Kroger - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Japan
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer - IIASA, Austria
Tohru Morioka - Osaka University, Japan
Warner North - Decision Focus, USA
Helga Novotny - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Timothy O'Riordan - University of East Anglia, UK
Elizabeth Pate-Cornell - Stanford University, USA
Marc Poumadere - Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Ortwin Renn - Centre for Technology Assessment, Germany
Arie Rip - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Eugene Rosa - Washington State University, USA
Torbjorn Rundmo - Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Yasuhiro Sakai - University of Tsukuba, Japan
David Slater - OXERA Environmental Ltd UK
Iwao Uchiyama - National Institute of Public Health Japan
Anna Vari - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Peter Wiedemann - Juliche Forchungs Centrum, Germany
Rae Zimmerman - New York University, USA

Instructions for Authors

1.  Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts must be submitted in English and must be original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.  Three copies of the manuscript together with all original figures and tables should be submitted to the Editor or one of the Associate Editors.  The manuscript will be subjected to blind review by one or two referees.  Revisions may be required before a decision is made to accept or reject the paper.  When a paper has been accepted, please send two copies of the manuscript in its final form to the Editor, together with a disc.   Please use a standard word processing package and label the disc clearly.

2.  Preparation of the Manuscript
The manuscript must be typed, double-spaced on A4 paper, with at least 3 cm margins (approx. 21x30 cm) and between 4000 and 6000 words.  Low quality dot-matrix printers should not be used.  Clearly written concise manuscripts should comprise:

2.1 Title page (page 1)
Including (a) a concise and informative title (b) the full names and affiliations of all authors (c) the full mailing address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.

2.2 Abstract (page 2)
Including a concise and informative abstract of 200 words maximum, summarizing the significant points of the paper.

2.3  Introduction (page 3)
The introduction should clearly state the purpose (aims and objectives) of the paper. It should include key references to appropriate work but should not be an historical or literature review.

2.4 Discussion
The discussion should emphasize the implications and practical significance of research findings, their limitations and relevance to previous studies. 2.5 References References in the text should be cited as follows one author - Smith (1993) or (Smith,1993) two authors - Smith and Brown (1993) or (Smith and Brown, 1993) three or more authors - Smith et al (1993) or (Smith et al 1993) Papers by the same author(s) in the same year should be distinguished by the letters a, b etc References should be listed at the end of the paper giving the year of publication, title of paper, journal titles in full, volume number and first and last page numbers.  References to books should include their edition, editor(s), publisher and place of publication.  Examples: Book  Eiser, J.R. (1994) Attitudes, Chaos and the Connectionist Mind, Oxford: Blackwell. Edited Book Kaplan R.S (1986) Advances in experimental social psychology, in K. Clark and C. Lorenze (eds) The Psychology of Attitudes, Oxford: Pergamon, pp 165-98. Journal  Heberlein T.A. (1982) Some social psychological explanations for changing environmental attitudes, Risk Analysis 2, 81-90 It is the author's responsibility to check the accuracy of references.

3.  Tables
Each table must be typed, double spaced on a separate page.  They must be consecutively numbered and should have a brief informative title.  Tables should be understandable without reference to the text.  Explanatory footnotes should be brief, placed beneath the table and indicated by lower case letters.  When using percentages state the absolute value that corresponds to 100%.  Identify all statistical methods.

4.  Figures
All illustrations of any kind must be submitted as sequentially numbered figures, one to a page.  If photographs, please supply high quality glossy photographs.  Line figures, graphs etc must be supplied as high quality laser print-outs (not photocopies).  If it is necessary to submit drawings then these must be of the highest quality and clarity. The author(s) name and the figure number should be written on the reverse of the figure in pencil.  When symbols, arrows, numbers or letters are used to identify parts of illustrations they must be clearly identified by a key in the figure legend rather than in the figure itself.  Similarly, internal scales, staining or processing of the figure must be explained where appropriate.  Figure legends should be listed sequentially on a separate page.  Colour illustrations are acceptable; however the cost of colour production will be charged to the author.

5.  Conventions
Use only recommended SI units.  Numerals should be used for all numbers of two or more digits, and for single digits when attached to units of measure. Abbreviations should be defined in brackets after their first mention in the text in accordance with internationally agreed rules

6. Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the designated corresponding author and should be returned directly to the publisher within 3 days of receipt.  Alterations in proofs other than the correction of typesetters errors may cause delay and extra charges that may be made to the author(s).

7.  Offprints
The corresponding author will be sent 25 free offprints as well as a bound copy of the journal.