Siting a Hazardous Waste Facility: The Tangled Web of Risk Communication
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/sbeder/risk.html

Beder, Sharon and Michael Shortland
University of Wollongong
1992

Abstract:

Risk communication is a relatively new field of study which has been concerned with the problems arising from the communication of scientific and technical assessments of risk to various sections of the public. These problems have largely been construed as technical ones: how to transfer difficult material from 'experts' to 'people' with the maximum effectiveness and the minimum loss of accuracy and content. Perhaps because technical or practical concerns have dominated, debates which have occurred in the literature of risk analysis have apparently had little impact on the field of risk communication.