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Environmental Hazards
Communicating Risks as a Social Process
By Sheldon Krimsky and Alonzo Plough
ISBN:
0-86569-184-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-86569-184-1
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/0865691843
349 pages
Auburn House
Publication:
9/30/1988
List Price:
$95.00
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UK Sterling Price: £54.95
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Hardcover
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These studies, carefully structured to illustrate the social and cultural dimensions of risk, suggest the diversity in the modes of risk communication and document the difficulties of predicting the public response. In each case, the authors show how this response is influenced by social, cultural, and political considerations. An important contribution of this book, as the reader will discover, lies in its clarification of the differences between technical and cultural rationality in the perception of risk.
—Ecochem
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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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