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Continued examples:

Knowable: can identify;experts agree
Unknowable: not visible, detectable; experts disagree

Individually controlled: diet, tobacco, seatbelt use
Controlled by others: second-hand smoke, industrial

Fair: equitable distribution of risks/benefits
Unfair: inequitable distribution 

Morally irrelevant: no effect on future generations;
reversible (also fair)
Morally relevant: affects future generations, not reversible   (also unfair)

Trustworthy: health prof/ agencies that warn against
risk
Untrustworthy: industry; uncertain or ambivalent govt

Responsive process: caring, informing process
Unresponsive: bureaucratic,forced revelation of info

Reference: Improving Risk Communication, Committee on Risk Perception and Communication, National Academy Press, Washington, D. C. 1989