CROSS-CULTURAL RISK PERCEPTION by Ortwin Renn (Editor), Bernd Rohrmann (Editor) ( 9780792377474 )

Item Details

Title:

CROSS-CULTURAL RISK PERCEPTION
A SURVEY OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES

By:

Ortwin Renn (Editor), Bernd Rohrmann (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£139.99
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ISBN 10:

0792377478

ISBN 13:

9780792377474

Publisher:

SPRINGER

Pub. date:

1 January, 2000

Edition:

2000 ed.

Series:

Risk, Governance and Society 13

Pages:

242

Description:

Summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons, this work consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, and China.

Synopsis:

Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, and China. The last chapter critically discusses the main findings from these studies and proposes a framework for understanding and investigating cross-cultural risk perception. Finally, implications for communication, regulation and management are outlined. The two editors, sociologist Ortwin Renn (Center of Technology Assessment, Germany) and psychologist Bernd Rohrmann (University of Melbourne, Australia), have been engaged in risk research for the last three decades. They both have written extensively on this subject and provided new empirical and theoretical insights into the growing body of international risk perception research.

Illustrations:

II, 242 p.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Springer

Returns:

Returnable

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