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The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk : Essays on Risk Selection and Perception / edited by Branden B. Johnson, Vincent T. Covello.

The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk: Issues, Methods, and Case Studies Vincent T. Covello and Branden B. Johnson Risks to health, safety, and the environment abound in the world and people cope as best they can. But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks, de...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Johnson, Branden B.
Other Authors: Covello, Vincent T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1987.
Series:Technology, Risk, and Society, An International Series in Risk Analysis ; 3.
Subjects:
Environmental sciences.
Environmental management.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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