Strategies for Risk Communication

Evolution, Evidence, Experience, Volume 1126

• Author(s): W. Troy Tucker,
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 139
• ISBN_10: 1573316814
  ISBN_13: 9781573316811
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving , Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Medical / Neuroscience , Science / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology , Self-Help / Safety & Security / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... This volumes comes out of a symposium, sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis and the National Science Foundation, which explored practical methods and robust theories of risk communication arising from recent research in risk perception, neuroscience, and the evolutionary social sciences. The symposium addressed how humans process and perceive uncertainty and risks. The purpose of the symposium was to synthesize the findings from these diverse fields to inform the development of practical strategies for risk communication.

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