| Risk
Communication Books |
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| 2010 |
| The Feeling of Risk: New Perspectives on Risk Perception (The Earthscan Risk in Society Series) |
| by Paul Slovik; October 2010; Hardcover ISBN-10:
1849711496 (ISBN-13: 978-1849711494); Paperback ISBN-10: 1849711488
(ISBN-13: 978-1849711487) |
| This book brings together the work of Paul
Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the
extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this century.
In this collection of works, the author explores the conception of "risk as
feelings" and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the
perception of risk. He also examines the elements of knowledge, cognitive
skill, and communication necessary for good decisions in the face of risk. |
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| 2005 |
| Public Health Risks of
Disasters: Communication, Infrastructure, and Preparedness |
| by William Hooke and Paul G. Rogers, Editors;
January 2005; ISBN 0309095425 |
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| The Social Contours of Risk:
Publics, Risk Communication and the Social Amplification of Risk (Risk,
Society and Policy Series) |
| by Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger E. Kasperson,
Editors; April 2005; ISBN 1844070735 |
| We live in a ‘risk society’ where the
identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology,
environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and
social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of
the world’s leading and most influential analysts of the social
dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to
this fundamental and wide-ranging field.
Volume I collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated
among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities,
corporations and the larger society. It analyses the problems of lack of
transparency and trust, and explores how even minor effects can be
amplified and distorted through media and social responses, preventing
effective management. The final section investigates the difficult ethical
issues raised by the unequal distribution of risk depending on factors
such as wealth, location and genetic inheritance – with examples from
worker and public protection, facility-siting conflicts, transporting
hazardous waste and widespread impacts such as climate change. |
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| 2004 |
| Risk Communication: A Handbook
for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks |
| by Regina E. Lundgren and
Andrea H. McMakin; August 2004, 3rd edition; ISBN 1574771426 |
| When health, safety, or
environmental risks take center stage, communicating risk information can
be a daunting challenge. The increased visibility of global terrorism and
other catastrophic emergencies underscores the potential for human tragedy
-- along with economic, social, and political consequences. Communication
must be targeted, understandable, and effective without inadvertently
provoking hostility and mistrust. For 10 years, Risk Communication, a
handbook of strategies and guidance for conveying risk information
effectively, has proved to be a valuable resource on areas such as current
laws, stakeholder participation methods, and working with the news media.
This significantly expanded third edition contains all new sections on
communicating about acts of bioterrorism and other emergencies, developing
messages, and using facilitated deliberation and alternative dispute
resolution methods. Sections on using technology in communication,
choosing visuals, understanding stigma and privacy issues, and evaluating
communication results have been expanded to include the latest methods and
research-driven examples. |
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| 2002 |
| Protocol for Cryptosporidium
Risk Communication |
| by Mitchell J. Small,
Baruch Fischhoff, G. Casman, Claire Palmgren, Felicia We Morris, and
Mitchell Small; April 2002; ISBN 1583211942 |
| This report provides
guidance to water utilities that can help them improve their communication
efforts on the subject of Cryptosporidium. It demonstrates the role
of effective communication in avoiding or limiting the severity of an
outbreak in the case of a contamination incident, interprets the findings
of a study of the public's knowledge and beliefs about Cryptosporidium,
and provides a protocol for development of an informational Web site,
available for water utilities to use or to incorporate in their
communications with the public. |
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| The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical
Documentation in Hazardous Environments (Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society) |
| by Beverly A. Sauer;
November 2002; ISBN 0805836853 |
| With mine safety providing
a technical and historical context, the author explores problems of
rhetorical agency, narrative, and the negotiations of meaning in
communications about the hazards of particular work and workplaces. |
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| 2001 |
|
Risk
Communication: A Mental Models Approach |
| by
M. Granger Morgan, Baruch Fischhoff, Ann Bostrom, and Cynthia J. Atman;
July 2001; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0-521-80223-7 (hardbound) |
| This book explains how to
develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon
University mental models approach, which are designed to contain, in
readily usable form, the information that people need to make informed
decisions about risks to health, safety, and the environment. (Also
available in paperback.) |
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| Risk, Media and Stigma:
Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology |
| by James Flynn, Paul Slovic, and Howard
Kunreuther; February 2001; ISBN 1853837008 |
| The benefits of modern technology often involve
health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of
technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by
the pervasive power of the media, public concern about health and
ecological risks can have enormous economic and social impacts, such as
the ‘stigmatization’ experienced in recent years with nuclear power,
British beef and genetically modified plants.
This volume presents the most current and comprehensive examination of
how and why stigma occurs and what the appropriate responses to it should
be to inform the public and reduce undesirable impacts. Each form of
stigma is thoroughly explored through a range of case studies. Theoretical
contributions look at the roles played by government and business, and the
crucial impact of the media in forming public attitudes. Stigma is not
always misplaced, and the authors discuss the challenges involved in
managing risk and reducing the vulnerability of important products,
industries and institutions while providing the public with the relevant
information they need about risks.
The issues covered include:
- Contamination stigma
- Nuclear stigma
- Place, product and industry stigma
- Risk, media and stigma
- Coping with stigma
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| 2000 |
| Environmental Risks and the Media (hardcover) |
| by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam, and Cynthia
Carter (editors); hardcover, December 1999, ISBN 0415214467; paperback,
May 2000, ISBN 0415214475 |
| This books explores the controversial ways in
which the media represent, transform, and contest environmental risks,
threats, and hazards--from large-scale disasters to everyday hazards. The
contributors consider issues such as the tensions between entertainment
and information in media coverage of the environment; how the media frame
"expert," "counter-expert" and "lay public"
definitions of environmental risk; and the role environmental pressure
groups play in shaping media coverage. |
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| Investing
101 |
| by Kathy Kristof; September 2000; ISBN:
1-57660-044-0 |
| The syndicated newspaper columnist who writes
"Your Money," a column on personal finance, for the Los
Angeles Times responds to readers' requests for
understandable and reader-friendly investment information
and advice in this primer, compiled from a series of investing tutorials.
She investigates major psychological hurdles--including the fear of
risk--that keep people from managing their money and investing it wisely. |
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| The Perception of
Risk (The Earthscan Risk in Society Series) |
| by Paul Slovik; October 2000; hardcover ISBN-10:
1853835277 (ISBN-13: 978-1853835278); paperback ISBN-10: 1853835285 (ISBN-13:
978-1853835285) |
| This book describes the gap between expert
views and public perception of risk. The topics covered include societal
risk taking, rating risks, facts and fears, perceived risk, and intuitive
toxicology. |
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| 1999 |
|
Application of Risk Communication to Food Standards and Safety Matters |
| Food & Nutrition Paper; June 1999; ISBN: 9251042608 |
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| Environmental Risk Communication; Principles and Practices for Industry |
| by Anthony J. Sadar, Mark D. Shull; September
1999; ISBN: 1566704901 |
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| Risk Communication and Public Health |
| edited by Peter Bennett and Kenneth Calman;
August 1999; ISBN: 0192630377 |
| Part I of this book examines research
perspectives and includes chapters on public risk perceptions and risk
communication, public reactions to risk, public and professional
perceptions of environmental health risks, and public health communication
and the social amplification of risks. Part II reviews lessons from
prominent cases and includes chapters on experiences in risk communication
and case studies in benchmarking in government. Part III of this book
covers institutional issues and includes chapters on genetically modified
foods, political risk culture, consumers and risk, negotiating risks to
public health, and the identification and management of risk. Part
IV of this book summarizes these issues and includes chapters on risk
communication in government and the private sector, relationships between
the media/public/policy making, improving risk communication through
workshops, and the need for systematic evaluation. |
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| Warnings and Risk Communication |
| edited
by Michael Wogalter, Dave Dejoy, Kenneth R. Laughery; September 1999; ISBN: 0748402667 |
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| Warnings,
Instructions and Technical Communication |
| by George A. Peters, Barbara J. Peters;
February 1999; ISBN 0913875619 |
| The publisher considers this to be the first
comprehensive book on warnings that provides immediately useful
information for design engineers, lawyers, professors, and hazard
communication specialists. Failure to warn and provide appropriate safety
information is often alleged in product liability lawsuits, toxic tort
claims, and ethical drug cases. Some allegations and supporting proof seem
simple, but failure-to-warn cases can easily become complex. The counsel
who proceeds on basic common sense and a case-law approach can be
unpleasantly surprised, especially when expert testimony and legal
arguments aren’t effectively rebutted because the counsel considered
warning issues elemental.
This comprehensive volume offers a wealth of information on warning
law, technology, research, custom, and practice. You’ll learn how
warnings are distinctive from product defects or deficiencies, and how the
analysis of warnings or their absence differs from accident
reconstruction. In fact, you’ll gain a firm grounding in how warnings
should deal with the analysis, prediction and control of human behavior.
Topics covered: advertising and warnings, alarms, behavioral influences,
cautions, chemical labeling, collision avoidance, cost of failure to warn,
design criteria, directions and procedures, effectiveness, environmental
notices, expectancy, instructions and directions, legal concepts,
liability prevention, material safety data, sheets, miscommunication,
positive guidance, preventive remedies, railroad crossings, recalls,
risks, standards, technical communication, techniques, testing and
evaluation, and workplace hazardous substances. |
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| 1998 |
| Communicating
about Risks to Environment and Health in Europe |
| edited by Philip C. R. Gray, Richard M. Stern, Marco Biocca;
May 1998; ISBN: 0792345193 |
| Public experience with risk communication
differs greatly from country to country in Europe and there has been
little opportunity for the transfer of experience and learning between
countries. This is especially true for the many new European States,
including the countries in transition from centralized to market
economies. This book presents case studies on risk communication. One of
its unifying concepts is the role of risk communication in the risk
management process. Technical and philosophical introductions to risk
communication and risk management and research in risk communication are
given. The case studies themselves occupy the central portion of the book,
each one covering a particular hazard, risk or situation seen from a
particular point of view. The issue of the special circumstances for
environmental and health risk communication in central and eastern Europe
is also addressed through a separate presentation and discussion of an
appropriate case study. A different approach to risk communication is
taken by examining how it forms part of the risk management process at the
local level. Research into risk perception, a field that forms an
important foundation for many aspects of risk communication, is summarised
and practical guidelines for risk communication are reviewed. These
include discussions on how to carry out public information programmes and
methods for increasing public involvement in risk management decisions. |
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| Environmental Health for All: Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans |
| edited
by David J. Briggs, Richard M. Stern, Tim L. Tinker; December 1998; ISBN: 0792354524 |
| The development of National Environmental
Health Action Plans (NEHAPs) has become a major initiative in Europe, with
51 countries now committed to introducing plans by the new millennium.
This book is the first substantive attempt to review recent experience in
formulating these plans, and to examine and assess the technical and
psycho-sociological tools available to support such plans. It brings
together results from four of the leading countries involved in NEHAP
developments (Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania and Poland) and describes
the techniques that were used to identify and prioritize key environmental
issues, and to identify policy responses. It also provides an up-to-date
review of the methods and tools available for risk assessment, risk
communication and priority setting, which are relevant not only to NEHAPs
but to environmental planning more generally, and to many other areas of
public policy. The discussion of these techniques is supported by numerous
case studies, and is concluded by a series of chapters reflecting on the
conceptual and research issues that still need to be addressed. The book
will thus be of interest and value to all those concerned with developing
and applying environmental health policy, to environmental
epidemiologists, and to students and practitioners in the wider area of
public policy. |
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| The
Public Voice in a Democracy at Risk |
| edited by Michael Salvador and Patricia M. Sias;
January 1998; ISBN 0275960137 |
| This collection assesses the condition of civic
dialogue in our avowedly participatory democracy and suggests specific
educational, institutional, and individual actions to enhance the
contemporary public debate of social and political issues. An
interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars examines current
problems and potential improvements in areas such as citizenship
education, media literacy, critical viewing skills, civic journalism, the
Internet and democratic dialogue, media coverage of political campaigns,
the recovery of excluded cultural voices, and citizen engagement in media
and electoral processes. |
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| Risk
Communication : A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks |
| by Regina E. Lundgren, Andrea H. McMakin;
June 1998; ISBN: 1574770551 |
When it comes to risk communication there is little margin for error. Not only is it critically important that the communication be clear and easy-to-understand, it must reach all those affected. Risk Communication, by Regina Lundgren, is a handbook designed to help scientists, engineers and writers communicate risk more effectively. With practical advice on planning the campaign, designing messages for a variety of audiences, and evaluating the message, this book can help you avoid the serious problems that result from inadequate communication of health, safety and
environmental risks. |
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| 1997 |
| Mad Cows and Mother's Milk : The Perils of Poor Risk Communication |
| by Douglas Powell, William Leiss; November 1997;
ISBN: 0773516190 |
| Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is one of the most problematic areas of public policy in western democracies. Given the perceived risks associated with the food we eat, chemicals in the environment, and modern technologies, consumers need clear and timely explanations of the nature of those risks - but rarely get them. Using a series of case studies, Douglas Powell and William Leiss outline the crucial role of risk management in dealing with public controversies and analyse risk communication practice and malpractice to provide a set of lessons for risk managers and communicators. |
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| Policing the Risk Society |
| by Richard V. Ericson, Kevin D. Haggerty; May
1997; ISBN: 0802041213 |
| Topics
covered in this book include policing as risk communication; policing,
risk, and law; community policing and risk communications; risk
disclosure; risk institutions; risk and social change; risks to
securities, careers, and identities; and communication technologies. |
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| Reporting on Risks |
| by William James Willis, Albert Adelowo Okunade, Jim Willis;
July 1997; ISBN: 0275952967 |
| Health and safety risk issues such as AIDS, hazardous waste disposal, airline disasters, and health care policy frequently dominate the news and require a new level of sensitivity and expertise on the part of journalists. This volume focuses on a study of the trends in risk reporting and offers
guidelines on how to report the dangers of these risks more accurately. It also examines the ethical implications of reporting risks to the public. This work will be of interest to those studying communication, specifically in the areas of ethics in journalism and public health and medical
reporting. |
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| Transport and Risk Communication : Belgium, Portugal and the Netherlands |
| edited
by Marc Mormont, Gert Spaargaren, Susana Gomes; June 1997; ISBN: 0820432776 |
| The process of transnationalization in Europe is reflected in the growth of transport flows and the rapid development of
new infrastructure facilities. The highly transport sector confronts policy makers with pressing challenges because some
major environmental problems are attached to transport. Decision making in the field of transport and the environment is
very complicated because of the complexity of the infrastructures themselves and because of the involvement of local
actors in the decision making process. The central task of this book is to show how regions and countries deal with this
complexity and the new challenges, different ways in which three small European countries face the many uncertainties
and controversies surrounding infrastructural policies. Economical constraints, institutional and cultural factors are shown
to interfere with the debates on transport-issues and the environmental risks attached to them. Each case-study describes
the national characteristics of the transport sector and analyses in some detail one of the major controversies which
recently arose around infrastructural projects. |
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| 1996 |
| Exploring Risk Communication |
| by Jan M. Gutteling, Oene Wiegman; July 1996; ISBN: 0792340655 |
| This
title focuses on the communication of natural and technological hazards. |
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| The Silicone Breast Implant Story : Communication and Uncertainty |
| by Marsha L. Vanderford, David H. Smith; June 1996;
ISBN: 0805817077 |
| This volume examines a major issue in the field of women's health: breast implants. At the core of the silicone breast implant controversy is the need for people to act amid the uncertainty about the health risks involved. The attempts of patients, physicians, drug manufacturers, and the others to seek and provide both information and influence makes communication central to this issue. The study discussed in this volume reveals the interrelation of public information and private decisions and how closely media and interpersonal relationships fit. By tracing one medical issue, that of silicone breast implants, across interpersonal, organizational, public relations, and mediated forums, this work demonstrates the many ways those communication channels overlap and inform one another. |
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| 1993 |
| Reporting on Risk : How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters, and Other
Hazards |
| by Eleanor Singer, Phyllis M. Endreny; May 1993;
ISBN: 0871548011 |
| This
book investigates how print and on-line media report today's risks,
including widespread problems regarding the media's ranking and
characterization of risks. |
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| Responding to Community Outrage : Strategies for Effective Risk Communication |
| by Peter Sandman; June 1993; ISBN: 093262751X |
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| 1991 |
| The
Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk |
| B. John Garrick, Willard C. Gekler; 1991; ISBN: 030643833X |
| Risk experts from diverse disciplines discuss
risk communication and other major issues regarding risk assessment and
management. |
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| 1990 |
| Communicating With the Public About Major Accident Hazards |
| by H.B.F. Gow, H. Otway; May 1990; ISBN: 1851664572 |
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| Hazards and the Communication of Risk |
| by John Handmer, Edmund Penning-Rowsel; August
1990; ISBN: 0566027844 |
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| Industry Risk Communication Manual : Improving Dialogue With Communities |
| by B.J. Hance, Caron Chess, Peter M. Sandman;
June 1990; ISBN: 0873712749 |
| This guidebook is written for company officials
and public relations specialists who must communicate technical
information to the local residents and media representatives. |
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| Ozone Risk Communication and Management |
| edited by Edward J. Calabrese, Charles E. Gilbert, Barbara D. Beck;
July 1990; ISBN: 0873711300 |
| This collection of 12 articles discuss the
environmental and health risks related to ozone and how to communicate and
manage these risks. |
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| 1989 |
| Effective
Risk Communication : The Role and Responsibility of Government and NonGovernment Organizations |
| by Vincent T. Covello, David B. McCallum, Maria T. Pavlova;
June 1989; ISBN: 0306430754 |
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