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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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 |
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