Environmental risks perception, evaluation and management
Environmental risks are among the most serious challenges of today's societies. Virtually all environmental risks are anthropogenic. The consequences of past decisions made by individuals, business, and governments have already devastated many of the earth's ecological systems and there is...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier/JAI,
2001.
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| Series | Research in social problems and public policy ;
v. 9. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781849501149 1849501149 0762308060 |
| ISSN | 0196-1152 ; |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0196-1152(2001)9 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xx, 299 p.) : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Environmental risks
- perception, evaluation and management : introduction / Gisela Böhm ... [et al.]
- Mental representation of global environmental risks / Gisela Böhm and Hans-Rüdiger Pfister
- Communicating health risks of global climate change / Ann Bostrom and Baruch Fischhoff
- Environmental risk in the media : modelling the reactions of the audience / Josef Nerb, Hans Spada and Katja Lay
- Risk, responsibility and recreancy / William R. Freudenburg
- Attitudes, decisions and perceptions of risk : a social psychological analysis / J. Richard Eiser
- Moral dimensions in risk evaluation / Lutz H. Eckensberger, Thomas Döring and Heiko Breit
- "God will send us the fish"
- perception and evaluation of an environmental risk in Ha'apai, Tonga / Andrea Bender
- Risk and culture in the Andes : differences between indigenous and western developmental perspectives / Barbara Göbel
- Environmental risk, public trust and perceived exclusion from risk management / Lynn J. Frewer
- Value-focused thinking for environmental risk consultations / Robin Gregory, Joseph Arvai and Tim McDaniels
- Environmental risks
- perception, evaluation and management : epilogue / Ortwin Renn and Andreas Klinke.