Cross-Cultural Risk Perception: A Survey of Empirical StudiesOrtwin Renn, Bernd Rohrmann Springer Science & Business Media, 2000 M01 31 - 242 pages Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, and China. The last chapter critically discusses the main findings from these studies and proposes a framework for understanding and investigating cross-cultural risk perception. Finally, implications for communication, regulation and management are outlined. The two editors, sociologist Ortwin Renn (Center of Technology Assessment, Germany) and psychologist Bernd Rohrmann (University of Melbourne, Australia), have been engaged in risk research for the last three decades. They both have written extensively on this subject and provided new empirical and theoretical insights into the growing body of international risk perception research. |
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... concept of precaution . The technical elite was not only able to reassure the public that design criteria for large - scale technologies and risk management practices would be suffi- cient to contain their catastrophic potential , they ...
... concept of precaution . The technical elite was not only able to reassure the public that design criteria for large - scale technologies and risk management practices would be suffi- cient to contain their catastrophic potential , they ...
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... concept of a measurable ' real risk ' is episte- mologically questionable ( Brehmer 1994 , Rohrmann 1998 ) . At the same time , however , the consequences of risk - taking are real : humans suffer , people die , and the environment is ...
... concept of a measurable ' real risk ' is episte- mologically questionable ( Brehmer 1994 , Rohrmann 1998 ) . At the same time , however , the consequences of risk - taking are real : humans suffer , people die , and the environment is ...
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... concepts of mea- suring these probabilities are a construction of the human mind ( Rosa 1996 ) . Will the pendulum swing back to a new era of expert domination in risk policies ? The trend seems to go in this direction . At the same ...
... concepts of mea- suring these probabilities are a construction of the human mind ( Rosa 1996 ) . Will the pendulum swing back to a new era of expert domination in risk policies ? The trend seems to go in this direction . At the same ...
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... concepts of risk . Science , Tech- nology , and Human Values , 14 , 380-399 . Brehmer , B. ( 1987 ) , The psychology of risk . In : Singleton , W. T. & Hovden , J. ( Eds . ) : Risk and decision , New York : Wiley , 25-39 . Covello ...
... concepts of risk . Science , Tech- nology , and Human Values , 14 , 380-399 . Brehmer , B. ( 1987 ) , The psychology of risk . In : Singleton , W. T. & Hovden , J. ( Eds . ) : Risk and decision , New York : Wiley , 25-39 . Covello ...
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... concept . It includes the analysis of cause - effect relationships , which may be scientific , anecdotal , religious or magic ( Douglas 1966 ; Wiedemann 1993 ) , but it also carries the implicit message to reduce undesirable effects ...
... concept . It includes the analysis of cause - effect relationships , which may be scientific , anecdotal , religious or magic ( Douglas 1966 ; Wiedemann 1993 ) , but it also carries the implicit message to reduce undesirable effects ...
Contents
Figure 3 TWODIMENSIONAL FACTOR SPACE FOR HAZARDS | 30 |
people do face and fear disaster | 42 |
with societal controversies about the evaluation and management of risks | 43 |
OF RISK PERCEPTION IN FRANCE | 55 |
IN BULGARIA AND ROMANIA | 145 |
THE COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE | 185 |
The contributions in this volume do not give conclusive | 214 |
LIST OF EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS | 234 |
PAUL SLOVIC is president of Decision Research and a professor | 235 |
236 | 236 |
238 | 238 |
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