Communicating Risks to the Public : International Perspectives.

Communicating Risks to the Public -- Technology, Risk, and Society An International Series in Risk Analysis VOLUME 4 -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- Introduction Risk communication: the evolution of attempts -- Chapter 1 Risk communication in Europe: Ways of implementing art. 8 of the post-Seveso directive -- Chapter 2 Active and passive provision of risk information in the Netherlands -- Chapter 3 Developing communications about risks of major industrial accidents in the Netherlands¹ -- Chapter 4 Rights and duties concerning the availability of environmental risk information to the public¹ -- Chapter 5 Risk comparisons and risk communication: Issues and problems in comparing health and environmental risks -- PART II Research perspectives on risk communication practices -- Chapter 6 Contaminated soil: public reactions, policy decisions, and risk communication -- Chapter 7 Prior knowledge and risk communication: The case of nuclear radiation and X-rays -- Chapter 8 The role of the media in risk communication¹ -- Chapter 9 Credibility and trust in risk communication -- Chapter 10 How people might process medical information: A 'mental model' perspective on the use of package inserts -- Chapter 11 Communicating about pesticides in drinking water -- Chapter 12 The time dimension in perception and communication of risk -- Chapter 13 Risk communication and the social amplification of risk -- PART III New approaches and methods -- Chapter 14 Hazard images, evaluations and political action: The case of toxic waste incineration -- Chapter 15 The danger culture of industrial society -- Chapter 16 Risk communication in emergencies -- Chapter 17 Risk communication: The need for a broader perspective -- Chapter 18 Small group studies of regulatory decision making for power-frequency electric and magnetic fields.

Chapter 19 Strategies of risk communication: Observations from two participatory experiments.

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