Effective Risk Communication: The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations: 4 - Rilegato

 
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Environmental Protection Agency, and Chairman, The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease Preface The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease is an interagency group established by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 (P.L.

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I. Overview.- 1. Principles and Guidelines for Improving Risk Communication.- II. Perspectives on Government Risk Communication.- 2. The Federal Role in Risk Communication and Public Education.- 3. Communicating with the Public on Health Risks.- 4. The Role of Risk Communication in Environmental Gridlock.- 5. Risk Communication: Moving from Theory to Law to Practice.- 6. Hazard versus Outrage in the Public Perception of Risk.- III. Government Risk Communication Programs.- 7. The Government as Lighthouse: A Summary of Federal Risk Communication Programs.- 8. Qualitative Risk Assessment: Experiences and Lessons.- 9. De Minimis Risk from Chemicals in Food.- 10. Interactions between State and Federal Programs.- 11. Interactions between Community/Local Government and Federal Programs.- 12. A White House Perspective on Risk Communication.- IV. Case Studies of Government Risk Communication.- 13. The Newark Dioxin Case.- 14. A Landfill Case in California.- 15. Phosphorus Release in Miamisburg, Ohio.- 16. Individual Notification of Workers Exposed to 2-Naphthylamine.- V. The Risk Communication Process.- 17. Helping the Public Make Health Risk Decisions.- 18. Scientific Uncertainties and How They Affect Risk Communication.- 19. Translation of Risk Information for the Public: Message Development.- 20. Reaching Target Audiences with Risk Information.- 21. Evaluating Risk Communication.- Appendixes.- A. Inventory of Government Risk Communication Programs.- B. Improving Dialogue with Communities: A Risk Communication Manual for Government.- C. Risk Communication, Risk Statistics, and Risk Comparisons: A Manual for Plant Managers.- D. Encouraging Effective Risk Communication in Government: Suggestions for Agency Management.

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9781461315704: Effective Risk Communication: The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations

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ISBN 10:  1461315700 ISBN 13:  9781461315704
Casa editrice: Springer, 2011
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