Effective Risk Communication

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84971-264-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 719 g

Reihe: Earthscan Risk in Society

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws together new examples of research and practice from contexts as diverse as energy generation, human health, nuclear waste, climate change, food choice, and social media. This book treats risk communication as much more than the interchange of risk information between experts and non-experts; rather, it aims to emphasise the diversity in viewpoints and practices.

In each specially commissioned chapter, the authors reflect on the theoretical and applied underpinnings of their best projects and comment on how their approach could be used effectively by others. Building upon each other, the chapters will provoke new discussion and action around a discipline which many feel is neither meeting important needs in practice, nor living up to its potential in research. Through a more careful examination of the work already done in risk communication, the book will help develop better, more reflective practice for the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arvai, Joseph

Rivers III, Louie

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Entscheidungstheorie, Sozialwahltheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. A Relational Theory of Risk: Lessons for risk communication 2. Video Interventions for Risk Communication and Decision Making 3. Communicating inconclusive scientific evidence 4. Communicating about Uncertainty in Multi-Stakeholder Groups 5. New transparency policies: risk communication’s doom? 6. Social distrust and its implications for risk communication: An example from high level radioactive waste management 7. Fairness, Public Engagement, and Risk Communication 8. Why risk communicators should care about the fairness and competence of their public engagement process 9. Risk Communication in Social Media 10. The ‘Mental Models’ Methodology for Developing Communications: Adaptations for informing public risk management decisions about emerging technologies 11. Construing Risk 12. Risk Communication and Moral Emotions 13. The Role of Channel Beliefs in Risk Information Seeking 14. Risk Communication: Insights from the Decision Sciences 15. Risk Communication for Empowerment: An Ultimate or Elusive Goal? 16. Learning from Failures 17. Exploring Unintended Consequences of Risk Communication Messages 18. Boomerang Effects in Risk Communication 19. The Role of Social and Decision Sciences in Communicating Uncertain Climate Risks

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Árvai is the Svare Chair in Applied Decision Research at the University of Calgary, Canada and is a Senior Researcher with Decision Research in Eugene, USA.
Louie Rivers III is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, USA