The Earthscan Reader in Risk and Modern Society - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1853835048 ISBN 13: 9781853835049

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

More and more social, political and environmental questions turn on the risks involved. Identifying, assessing and managing risks is correspondingly increasingly important for many professionals, for policy makers and for students and researchers in social and environmental sciences. This volume brings together seminal contributions on risk analysis, accompanied by an extensive editorial introduction laying out the issues for different areas of risk research and a framework for interpreting them. It will be an essential sourcebook for all those working in the area.

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Contenuti

Introduction * The Social Construction of Risk * Risk Comparisons * Cultural Theory: an Alternative to the Psychometric Paradigm? * From Risk Perception to Risk Communication * The Importance of the Media and the Social Amplification of Risk * Trust * Mental Models * Optimistic Bias or Unreal Optimism * Examples of What Social Scientists Can Do.

Product Description

Book by Lfstedt Ragnar E

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1853835048
• ISBN 13: 9781853835049
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Lofstedt Ragnar E., Frewer Lynn
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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