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Effective Risk Communication

The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Vincent T. Covello

    1. Center for Risk Communication, Division of Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA

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  2. David B. McCallum

    1. The Institute for Health Policy Analysis, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA

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  3. Maria T. Pavlova

    1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis (CIRA, volume 4)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Case Studies of Government Risk Communication

    1. Individual Notification of Workers Exposed to 2-Naphthylamine

      • Paul A. Schulte
      Pages 105-108

  2. The Risk Communication Process

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Helping the Public Make Health Risk Decisions

      • Baruch Fischhoff
      Pages 111-116

    3. Scientific Uncertainties and How They Affect Risk Communication

      • Dale Hattis
      Pages 117-126

    4. Translation of Risk Information for the Public: Message Development

      • Elaine Bratic Arkin
      Pages 127-135

    5. Reaching Target Audiences with Risk Information

      • James D. Callaghan
      Pages 137-142

    6. Evaluating Risk Communication

      • Roger E. Kasperson, Ingar Palmlund
      Pages 143-158

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 159-370
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About this book

One of the greatest challenges facing those concerned with health and environmental risks is how to carry on a useful public dialogue on these subjects. In a democracy, it is the public that ultimately makes the key decisions on how these risks will be controlled. The stakes are too high for us not to do our very best. The importance of this subject is what led the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease to establish an Interagency Group on Public Education and Communication. This volume captures the essence of the "Workshop on the Role of Government in Health Risk Communication and Public Education" held in January 1987. It also includes some valuable appendixes with practical guides to risk communication. As such, it is an important building block in the effort to improve our collective ability to carry on this critical public dialogue. Lee M. Thomas Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Chairman, The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease Preface The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease is an interagency group established by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-95). Congress mandated the Task Force to recommend research to determine the relationship between environmental pollutants and human disease and to recommend research aimed at reduc­ ing the incidence of environment-related disease. The Task Force's Project Group on Public Education and Communication focuses on education as a means of reducing or preventing disease.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Risk Communication, Division of Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Vincent T. Covello

  • The Institute for Health Policy Analysis, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA

    David B. McCallum

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, New York, USA

    Maria T. Pavlova

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Effective Risk Communication

  • Book Subtitle: The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations

  • Editors: Vincent T. Covello, David B. McCallum, Maria T. Pavlova

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1569-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43075-6Published: 30 April 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48497-1Published: 31 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1569-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 370

  • Topics: Environmental Management, Social Sciences, general

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology

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