Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as a Social Process

by Sheldon Krimsky and Alonzo Plough

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865691878
• ISBN13: 9780865691872
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"