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Environmental Hazards Communicating Risks as a Social Process
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Sheldon Krimsky, Alonzo Plough
Book Code: R187
ISBN: 0-86569-187-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-86569-187-2
349 pages
Auburn House Paperback
Publication: 9/30/1988
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Environmental Hazards is a major step forward in understanding risk and dealing with the environmental crisis. It is well written, finely analytical, and a major contribution to the social scientific analysis of risk.
    —Disability Studies Quarterly
Description: This substantive, insightful book demonstrates the growing importance of risk communication as both a technical and cultural phenomenon. The authors discuss the various processes used to communicate risk to citizens; explore how the public responds to risk messages; and examine how social, economic, historical, and political factors can influence the success or failure of risk communication. Cases presented in this volume demonstrate the diversity of risk communication approaches and activities, including public activism, federal and state agency responses, private sector response, and media coverage.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Pesticide Residues in Food: The Case of EDB
  • The Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms into the Environment: The Case of Ice Minus
  • A Natural Geological Hazard; The Case of Radon
  • Plant Closure: The ASARCO/Tacoma Smelter
  • A hazardous Waste Site: The Case of Nyanza
LC Card Number: 88-14467
LCC Class: T10
Dewey Class: 363.1
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