The Social Amplification of Risk
Nick Pidgeon
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Description for The Social Amplification of Risk
Paperback. This volume brings together case studies and theoretical work informed by the social amplification of risk framework. Editor(s): Pidgeon, Nick; Kasperson, Roger E.; Slovic, Paul. Num Pages: 468 pages, 17 b/w illus. 1 map 17 tables. BIC Classification: JH; JMH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading analysts of risk and its communication, brings together contributions from a group of international experts working in the field of risk perception and risk communication. Key conceptual issues are discussed as well ... Read more
The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading analysts of risk and its communication, brings together contributions from a group of international experts working in the field of risk perception and risk communication. Key conceptual issues are discussed as well ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521520447
SKU
V9780521520447
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
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99-2
About Nick Pidgeon
Nick Pidgeon is Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, and Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk. He has written extensively on risk communication and perception issues, including a major contribution to the UK Royal Society Report on Risk (1992), as well as on causes of organisational accidents. He is the author of Man-Made Disasters (1997). ... Read more
Reviews for The Social Amplification of Risk
'This volume discusses key conceptual issues as well as a range of recent case studies (spanning BSE and food safety, AIDS/HIV, nuclear power, child protection, Y2K, electromagnetic fields, and waste incineration …'. Social Science Newsletter