The Social Amplification of Risk - Softcover

Pidgeon, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521520444 ISBN 13: 9780521520447

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This volume brings together case studies and theoretical work informed by the social amplification of risk framework.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nick Pidgeon is Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, and Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk. He has written extensively on risk communication and perception issues, including a major contribution to the UK Royal Society Report on Risk (1992), as well as on causes of organisational accidents. He is the author of Man-Made Disasters (1997).

Paul Slovic is President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. He is the leading psychologist in the field of risk perception and behavioral decision making over the past thirty years. His publications include Acceptable Risk with B. Fischhoff, S. Lichtenstein, R. Keeney and P. Derby (Cambridge, 1981), Judgement under Uncertainty with D. Kahneman and A. Tversky, 2nd edition, Cambridge, 2002), The Perception of Risk (2000), and Risk Media and Stigma with J. Flynn and H. Kunreuther (2001).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521520444
• ISBN 13: 9780521520447
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 468
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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