Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as a Social Process

by Sheldon Krimsky and Alonzo Plough

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This substantive, insightful book demonstrates the growing importance of risk communication as both a technical and cultural phenomenon. The authors discuss the various processes used to communicate risk to citizens; explore how the public responds to risk messages; and examine how social, economic, historical, and political factors can influence the success or failure of risk communication. Cases presented in this volume demonstrate the diversity of risk communication approaches and activities, including public activism, federal and state agency responses, private sector response, and media coverage.

  • ISBN10 0865691878
  • ISBN13 9780865691872
  • Publish Date 30 September 1988
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 February 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher ABC-CLIO
  • Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 349
  • Language English