Cross-Cultural Risk Perception: A Survey of Empirical StudiesOrtwin Renn, Bernd Rohrmann Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 M03 14 - 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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... aspects 4.4 Semantic images 4.5 Differences between hazard types 4.6 aspects 5 The structure of risk CORE FINDINGS ON THE FACTORS INFLUENCING RISK EVALUATIONS 5.1 Institutional trust 5.2 Value commitments 5.3 Culturalgroup affiliations ...
... aspects 4.4 Semantic images 4.5 Differences between hazard types 4.6 aspects 5 The structure of risk CORE FINDINGS ON THE FACTORS INFLUENCING RISK EVALUATIONS 5.1 Institutional trust 5.2 Value commitments 5.3 Culturalgroup affiliations ...
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... RISK PERCEPTION RESEARCH 7 REFERENCES. SUMMARY. This firstchapter provides a brief review of the present knowledge on risk perceptionand elucidates the ... aspects of risk are seen as crucial facets of the concept. Most risk concepts have ...
... RISK PERCEPTION RESEARCH 7 REFERENCES. SUMMARY. This firstchapter provides a brief review of the present knowledge on risk perceptionand elucidates the ... aspects of risk are seen as crucial facets of the concept. Most risk concepts have ...
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... risk concepts have one element in common, however: the distinction betweenreality and possibility (Markowitz∙1991; Evers and Nowotny 1987).Ifthe future wereeither predeterminedor independent of present human activities, theterm“risk ...
... risk concepts have one element in common, however: the distinction betweenreality and possibility (Markowitz∙1991; Evers and Nowotny 1987).Ifthe future wereeither predeterminedor independent of present human activities, theterm“risk ...
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... Risk issues also create controversies. In many societies, severe conflicts ... risk assessments are given by different groups (Edwards & v. Winterfeldt 1987 ... aspects (O'Riordan 1983). Furthermore, cultural factors are crucial for ...
... Risk issues also create controversies. In many societies, severe conflicts ... risk assessments are given by different groups (Edwards & v. Winterfeldt 1987 ... aspects (O'Riordan 1983). Furthermore, cultural factors are crucial for ...
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... risk” as a subjective concept, not an objective entity, to include technical/physical and social/psychological aspects in risk criteria, to accept opinions of “the public” (i.e., laypeople, not experts) as the matter of interest, to ...
... risk” as a subjective concept, not an objective entity, to include technical/physical and social/psychological aspects in risk criteria, to accept opinions of “the public” (i.e., laypeople, not experts) as the matter of interest, to ...
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