Dr Brian MacGillivray
Research
Security, risk and resilient places
Rationality and risk regulation; the use of scientific evidence in public policy-making; psychology and sociology of risk issues.
Selected Publications
MacGillivray, B.H., Alcock, R.E. and Busby, J.S., Is risk-based regulation feasible? The case of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), Risk Analysis, 31(2): 266-281, 2011.
MacGillivray, B.H. and Pidgeon, N.F., Humility needed in decision-making, Nature 475:455, 2011.
Alcock, R.E., MacGillivray, B.H. and Busby, J.S. Understanding the mismatch between the demands of risk assessment and practice of scientists – the case of Deca-BDE, Environment International, 37(1): 226-235, 2011.

