Risk Communication
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- Synopsis
- A fully updated handbook on effectively communicating environmental, safety, and health risksWritten by two well-known risk practitioners with over twenty-five years' experience in the field, this fully updated Fifth Edition of Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks offers sound, scientific research with practical, hands-on advice for those in the public and private sectors.Highly accessible and easy to understand, this must-read includes real-life examples of such headline-making events as the tsunami and radiation release in Japan in 2011, the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, and extreme weather events, along with the lessons learned from them. It offers new chapters on public health campaigns, and on the use and effectiveness of social media for risk communication purposes.Risk Communication is divided into five self-contained parts:Part I provides background information for understanding the basic theories and practices of risk communicationPart II explains how to plan a risk communication effortPart III describes how to put risk communication into actionPart IV discusses how to evaluate risk communication efforts, including techniques for measuring successPart V highlights special cases in risk communication, including disasters and other emergencies, international risk communication, and public health campaignsAn ideal introduction to the field, this book is also a welcome reference for those involved in communicating environmental, safety, and health risks in government, industry, and academia.
- Copyright:
- 2002
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118645727
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781118456934
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Date of Addition:
- 06/17/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Andrea H. Mcmakin, Regina E. Lundgren
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Communication
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.