Cross-Cultural Risk Perception

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-10

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2. Risk Perception Research

   • Bernd Rohrmann, Ortwin Renn

   Pages 11-53

3. Nuclear Power and the Public

   • Paul Slovic, James Flynn, C. K. Mertz, Marc Poumadère, Claire Mays

   Pages 55-102

4. Cross-Cultural Studies on the Perception and Evaluation of Hazards

   • Bernd Rohrmann

   Pages 103-143

5. Risk Perception in Bulgaria and Romania

   • Lennart Sjöberg, Daniela Kolarova, Alina-Anca Rucai, Marie-Louise Bernström

   Pages 145-183

6. The Cognitive Architecture of Risk: Pancultural Unity or Cultural Shaping?

   • Eugene A. Rosa, Noriyuki Matsuda, Randall R. Kleinhesselink

   Pages 185-210

7. Cross-Cultural Risk Perception: State and Challenges

   • Ortwin Renn, Bernd Rohrmann

   Pages 211-233

8. Back Matter

   Pages 234-241

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Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, and China. The last chapter critically discusses the main findings from these studies and proposes a framework for understanding and investigating cross-cultural risk perception. Finally, implications for communication, regulation and management are outlined.
The two editors, sociologist Ortwin Renn (Center of Technology Assessment, Germany) and psychologist Bernd Rohrmann (University of Melbourne, Australia), have been engaged in risk research for the last three decades. They both have written extensively on this subject and provided new empirical and theoretical insights into the growing body of international risk perception research.

• communication
• management
• perception

'This is a highly valuable book. The vast and comprehensive empirical data involved and nontrivial findings of the book provide a significant contribution to understanding risk perception in international perspective [
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, June (2002)

• Center for Technology Assessment, Stuttgart, Germany

  Ortwin Renn

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Bernd Rohrmann

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