1: Introduction.- Overview.- Siting an LNG Terminal In California: A Descriptive Framework.- Science and Policy: Their Separation and Integration in Risk Decisions.- 2: Risk Assessment in a Problem Context.- Comparing Risk Assessments for Liquefied Energy Gas Terminals — Some Results.- Societal Response to three Mile Island and the Kemeny Commission Report.- Decision Making in Environmental Crisis Situations.- Main Gas Pipeline Route Selection Problems, Taking Into Consideration Risk and Uncertainty Factors.- Worldwide Standards and Practices for Siting LNG and LPG Facilities: A Comparison.- 3: Institutional Aspects of Risk.- Risks and the Waning of Compromise in Politics.- Institutional Mythologies and Dual Societies in the Management of Risk.- A Proposal to Create a Cultural Theory of Risk.- 4: Decision Processes and Prescriptive Aspects of Risk.- Evaluating Technological Risk: Prescriptive and Descriptive Perspectives.- Group Decision Making Methods for Evaluating Social and Technological Risks.- Market Risk Assessment of Catastrophic Risks.- 5: General Discussions and Future Research Needs.- General Discussions.- Future Research Needs.- Appendix: List of Participants.