Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public MindMichael Siegrist, Timothy C. Earle, Heinz Gutscher Earthscan, 2007 - 294 pages Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies (on topics such as mobile phone technology, well-known food accidents and crises, wetland management, smallpox vaccination, cooperative risk management of US forests and the disposal of the Brent Spar oil drilling platform), this is the most thorough and up-to-date examination of trust in all its forms and complexities. The book integrates diverse research traditions and provides new insights into the phenomenon of trust. Factors that lead to the establishment and erosion of trust are identified. Insightful analyses are provided for researchers and students of environmental and social science and professionals engaged in risk management and communication in both public and private sectors. Related titles |
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... Reliance and Cooperative Risk Management1 George Cvetkovich and Patricia L. Winter One reaction to an earlier book in this series ( Cvetkovich and Löfstedt , 1999 ) recognized a lack of consensus on definitions of key concepts regard ...
... reliance should promote the development of better conceptualizations and increase the likelihood that applied efforts will be effective . Confusing the routes of reliance leads to using the same terms for processes with different ...
... reliance does not always require trust . The Japanese evidence seems to indicate that reliance can be based solely on well - established social relationships or , by extension , other assurances of dependability . In contrast to ...