- Bib ID:
- 1992409
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994
- xi, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0792330579 (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- Technology, risk, and society ; v. 9.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. I. Risk Management, Adaptation, and Design for Safety / Jens Rasmussen
- Ch. II. Epistemic Risk: The Significance of Knowing What One Does Not Know / Nils-Eric Sahlin and Johannes Persson
- Ch. III. Perceptions of Risk: Paradox and Challenge / Paul Slovic
- Ch. IV. Psychological Research on Risk: Some Notes on Psychological Research Related to Risk / Berndt Brehmer
- Ch. V. Ethical Aspects of Valuing Lives / Jonas Josefsson, Goran Hermeren and Nils-Eric Sahlin
- Ch. VI. The Psychology of Risk Characterization / Baruch Fischhoff
- Ch. VII. Risk Communication: The Social Construction of Meaning and Trust / Timothy C. Earle and George Cvetkovich
- Ch. VIII. Lay Risk Evaluation and the Reform of Risk Management / Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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