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The authors explore the nature of natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, etc.) and technological dangers (hazardous waste, nuclear power plants, etc.), develop a model for understanding people's reaction to risk messages (Do they evacuate when the weather dictates as much? Do they protest the impending construction of a nuclear power plant?), and demonstrate how effective strategies for disseminating risk messages can be devised.
Annotation "This volume is recommended for practitioners in private emergency management and federal, state, and local governments, as well as students studying risk communication, health communication, emergency management, and environmental policy and management."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
In chapter two, I test the effectiveness of using general versus specific message frames in communicating the risks associated with radon gas. Contrary to risk communication conventional wisdom, I demonstrate that a general message frame, with more global data, encouraged a greater amount of mitigation behavior than a specific frame with localized data for those individuals who lived in high risk areas. Finally, in chapter three, in order to clarify the theoretical underpinnings of the construct of psychological distance, I conducted two studies designed to test its relationship with personal relevance. While inversely correlated, the two constructs are indeed separate and there is no evidence that they are conflated by current accepted measures of psychological distance. My findings also support the validity of previously used items measuring the subjective psychological distance of climate change , and show their usefulness in predicting concern regarding the health effects associated with climate change. I conclude the dissertation in chapter four by discussing the implications of this work for risk communication practitioners and offering specific suggestions on how to improve risk messages based on the research presented here.
One of the greatest challenges facing those concerned with health and environmental risks is how to carry on a useful public dialogue on these subjects. In a democracy, it is the public that ultimately makes the key decisions on how these risks will be controlled. The stakes are too high for us not to do our very best. The importance of this subject is what led the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease to establish an Interagency Group on Public Education and Communication. This volume captures the essence of the "Workshop on the Role of Government in Health Risk Communication and Public Education" held in January 1987. It also includes some valuable appendixes with practical guides to risk communication. As such, it is an important building block in the effort to improve our collective ability to carry on this critical public dialogue. Lee M. Thomas Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Chairman, The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease Preface The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease is an interagency group established by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-95). Congress mandated the Task Force to recommend research to determine the relationship between environmental pollutants and human disease and to recommend research aimed at reduc ing the incidence of environment-related disease. The Task Force's Project Group on Public Education and Communication focuses on education as a means of reducing or preventing disease.
Recent events of environmental disasters on the Balkans provoked many implications on the performance of alert and response systems in environmental and other crises' management. The paper discusses the importance of risk communications at all the stages as being the main factor in prevention, mitigation and recovery's effectiveness. Considering the most prominent environmental risks in the region the study determines the most important characteristics of environmental risk communications and gives specific recommendations for stakeholders in environmental threats and risk handling.The paper examines the importance of risk communication in risk management for enhancing the level of environmental security and the specific role of local communities behavioral and communication models and characteristics of local civil societies' development. Considering the importance of information for taking correct, timely and realistic decisions for wellbeing of societies concerning environmental security, the study puts the accent on implementing equality principles in citizenship and societal challenges and the role of non-governmental organizations. As the local environment shapes communities' perceptions of environmental risks they should be embraced in models of removing considerable barriers to accessing, understanding and utilizing sources of information about environmental risks.Some proposals are made in connection to enhancing environmental security knowledge examining the process of delivery and processing of risk information in risk management and involvement of community based society organizations, and contributing to the achievement an adequate level of environmental security, as well as overall resilience and environmental risk reduction as part of the human security concept, in regional and international scope.