Risk Communication and Public Perception of Technological Hazards (Part One)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=200573

Recchia, Virginia
Social Science Research Network
1999

Abstract:

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies (psychological approach), which try to investigate how the public is influenced by certain variables in perceiving risk as "acceptable" or not. Risk communication involves some aspects of risk analysis methodology, since it results that also the technical analysis is influenced by the co-operation between the actors involved.