Environmental risks : perception, evaluation and management /
Environmental risks are among the most serious challenges of today's societies. Virtually all environmental risks are anthropogenic. The consequences of past decisions made by individuals, business, and governments have already devastated many of the earth's ecological systems and there is...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier/JAI,
2001.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Research in social problems and public policy ;
v. 9. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Environmental risks
- perception, evaluation and management : introduction / Gisela Böhm [and others]
- Mental representation of global environmental risks / Gisela Böhm and Hans-Rüdiger Pfister
- Communicating health risks of global climate change / Ann Bostrom and Baruch Fischhoff
- Environmental risk in the media : modelling the reactions of the audience / Josef Nerb, Hans Spada and Katja Lay
- Risk, responsibility and recreancy / William R. Freudenburg
- Attitudes, decisions and perceptions of risk : a social psychological analysis / J. Richard Eiser
- Moral dimensions in risk evaluation / Lutz H. Eckensberger, Thomas Döring and Heiko Breit
- "God will send us the fish"
- perception and evaluation of an environmental risk in Ha'apai, Tonga / Andrea Bender
- Risk and culture in the Andes : differences between indigenous and western developmental perspectives / Barbara Göbel
- Environmental risk, public trust and perceived exclusion from risk management / Lynn J. Frewer
- Value-focused thinking for environmental risk consultations / Robin Gregory, Joseph Arvai and Tim McDaniels
- Environmental risks
- perception, evaluation and management : epilogue / Ortwin Renn and Andreas Klinke.