Communicating Risk and Safety
The world is wrought with risks that may harm people and cost lives. The news is riddled with reports of natural disasters (wildfires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes), industrial disasters (chemical spills, water and air pollution), and health pandemics (e.g., SARS, H1NI, COVID19). Effective risk c...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton
[2023]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Handbooks of Communication Science
24 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The world is wrought with risks that may harm people and cost lives. The news is riddled with reports of natural disasters (wildfires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes), industrial disasters (chemical spills, water and air pollution), and health pandemics (e.g., SARS, H1NI, COVID19). Effective risk communication is critical to mitigating harms. The body of research in this handbook reveals the challenges of communicating such messages, affirms the need for dialogue, embraces the role of instruction in proactively communicating risk, acknowledges the function of competing risk messages, investigates the growing influence of new media, and constantly reconsiders the ethical imperative for communicating recommendations for enhanced safety |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (X, 641 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9783110752427 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110752427 |