Descript |
242p. |
Contents |
Introduction : risk management in its social and political context / T. O'Riordan -- The coverage of risk perception in the Journal of environmental psychology / T. O'Riordan -- Editorial : psychological aspects of environmental risk / D. Canter and K.H. Craik with J. Brown -- Characterizing hazard. Classifying hazardous events / G. Cvetkovich and T.C. Earle -- Public perceptions of science : what Seascale said about the Black Report / S.M. Macgill -- Levels of environmental decisions / O. Svenson and B. Fischhoff. Risk perceptions. Public attitudes to nuclear energy : salience and anxiety / J. van der Pligt -- Nuclear attitudes after Chernobyl : a cross-national study / J.R. Eiser ... [et al.] -- Public response to the Chernobyl accident / O. Renn -- What was the meaning of Chernobyl? / T.C. Earle and G. Cvetkovich -- Public perceptions of electric power transmission lines / L. Furby ... [et al.] -- Parental concern about children's traffic safety in residential neighborhoods / T. Gärling, A. Svensson-Gärling and J. Valsiner -- Prediction of environmental risk over very long time scales / J.C. Baird --Sources of evaluation of nuclear and renewable energy contained in the local press / R. Spears, J. van der Pligt, and J.R. Eiser -- Risk valuation. Children's perceptions of nuclear power stations as revealed through their drawings / J.M. Brown, J. Henderson and M.P. Armstrong -- How the Sizewell B inquiry is grappling with the concept of acceptable risk / T. O'Riordan, R. Kemp, and M. Purdue. |
ISBN |
0125278403 |
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