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Autore: | Lindell Michael K |
Titolo: | Communicating environmental risk in multiethnic communities [[electronic resource] /] / Michael K. Lindell, Ronald W. Perry |
Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.1056 |
Soggetto topico: | Environmental impact statements |
Pollution - Social aspects | |
Environmental policy | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | PerryRonald W |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-246) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 - Risk Communication, Culture, and Ethnicity; 2 - Theoretical Bases of Risk Communication; 3 - Disaster Warnings as Risk Communication; 4 - Hazard Awareness as Risk Communication; 5 - Approaches to Influencing Hazard Adjustment Adoption; References; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | The authors explore the nature of natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, etc.) and technological dangers (hazardous waste, nuclear power plants, etc.), develop a model for understanding people's reaction to risk messages (Do they evacuate when the weather dictates as much? Do they protest the impending construction of a nuclear power plant?), and demonstrate how effective strategies for disseminating risk messages can be devised. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Communicating environmental risk in multiethnic communities |
ISBN: | 1-322-41648-6 |
0-7619-0650-9 | |
1-4522-6256-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910478863203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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