Overview
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Roger E. Kasperson
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C.E.N.T.E.D., Clark University, Worcester, USA
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Pieter Jan M. Stallen
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Institute for Environment and Systems Analysis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Roger E. Kasperson, Pieter Jan M. Stallen
Pages 1-12
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Risk Communication Practices
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- Brian Wynne, José Van Eijndhoven
Pages 15-33
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- José Van Eijndhoven, Cor Worrell
Pages 35-54
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Research perspectives on risk communication practices
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Front Matter
Pages 125-125
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- Joop Van Der Pligt, Joop De Boer
Pages 127-144
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- Gideon Keren, Harrie Eijkelhof
Pages 145-155
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- Judith Lichtenberg, Douglas MacLean
Pages 157-173
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- Ortwin Renn, Debra Levine
Pages 175-217
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- Helmut Jungermann, Holger Schütz, Manfred Thüring
Pages 219-236
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- David B. McCallum, Laurel Anderson
Pages 237-262
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New approaches and methods
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Front Matter
Pages 325-325
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- George Cvetkovich, Timothy C. Earle
Pages 327-343
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- John Sorensen, Dennis Mileti
Pages 367-392
About this book
Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest. Risk analysis, as Krimsky and Plough (1988:2) point out, dates back at least to the Babylonians in 3200 BC. Cultures have traditionally utilized a host of mecha nisms for anticipating, responding to, and communicating about hazards - as in food avoidance, taboos, stigma of persons and places, myths, migration, etc. Throughout history, trade between places has necessitated labelling of containers to indicate their contents. Seals at sites of the ninth century BC Harappan civilization of South Asia record the owner and/or contents of the containers (Hadden, 1986:3). The Pure Food and Drug Act, the first labelling law with national scope in the United States, was passed in 1906. Common law covering the workplace in a number of countries has traditionally required that employers notify workers about significant dangers that they encounter on the job, an obligation formally extended to chronic hazards in the OSHA's Hazard Communication regulation of 1983 in the United States. In this sense, risk communication is probably the oldest way of risk manage ment. However, it is only until recently that risk communication has attracted the attention of regulators as an explicit alternative to the by now more common and formal approaches of standard setting, insuring etc. (Baram, 1982).
Editors and Affiliations
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C.E.N.T.E.D., Clark University, Worcester, USA
Roger E. Kasperson
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Institute for Environment and Systems Analysis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pieter Jan M. Stallen
