عنوان

The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk :

(Number (ISBN

9400933959

(Number (ISBN

9789400933958

Number

b538522

Title Proper

The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Essays on Risk Selection and Perception

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Branden B. Johnson, Vincent T. Covello.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1987

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(424 pages)

Series Title

Technology, Risk, and Society, An International Series in Risk Analysis, 3.

Text of Note

I: Reality, Perception, and the Social Construction of Risk --;Risk and Relativism in Science for Policy --;II: Community Dynamics and the Social Construction of Risk --;Risk Perception in Community Context: A Case Study --;Chemicals and Community at Love Canal --;III: Environmental Protest Movements, Citizen Groups, and the Social Construction of Risk. --;Challenging Official Risk Assessments via Protest Mobilization: The TMI Case --;Protest Movements and the Construction of Risk --;The Environmentalist Movement and Grid/Group Analysis: A Modest Critique --;IV: Agenda-Setting, Group Conflict, and the Social Construction of Risk --;Macro-Risks, Micro-Risks, and the Media: The EDB Case --;The Political Symbolism of Occupational Health Risks --;V: Organizations and the Social Construction of Risk --;The Environmental Movement Comes to Town: A Case Study of an Urban Hazardous Waste Controversy --;Communicating Information about Workplace Hazards: Effects on Worker Attitudes Toward Risks --;Defining Risk within a Business Context: Thomas A. Edison, Elihu Thomson, and the a.c-d.c. Controversy, 1885-1900 --;VI: Experts and the Social Construction of Risk --;Risk and the American Engineering Profession: The ASME Boiler Code and American Industrial Safety Standards --;Environmental Risk in Historical Perspective --;OSHA's Carcinogens Standard: Round One on Risk Assessment Models and Assumptions --;Cultural Aspects of Risk Assessment in Britain and the United States --;Index of Subjects.

Text of Note

But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks, decisions must be made about which risks are important and which risks can safely be ignored.

Environmental management.

Environmental sciences.

edited by Branden B. Johnson, Vincent T. Covello.

Branden B Johnson

Vincent T Covello

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[Book]

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