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" The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk : "
edited by Branden B. Johnson, Vincent T. Covello.
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718832
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b538522
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edited by Branden B. Johnson, Vincent T. Covello.
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The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk : : Essays on Risk Selection and Perception\ edited by Branden B. Johnson, Vincent T. Covello.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1987
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Technology, Risk, and Society, An International Series in Risk Analysis, 3.
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(424 pages)
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9400933959
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: 9789400933958
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I: Reality, Perception, and the Social Construction of Risk --;Risk and Relativism in Science for Policy --;II: Community Dynamics and the Social Construction of Risk --;Risk Perception in Community Context: A Case Study --;Chemicals and Community at Love Canal --;III: Environmental Protest Movements, Citizen Groups, and the Social Construction of Risk. --;Challenging Official Risk Assessments via Protest Mobilization: The TMI Case --;Protest Movements and the Construction of Risk --;The Environmentalist Movement and Grid/Group Analysis: A Modest Critique --;IV: Agenda-Setting, Group Conflict, and the Social Construction of Risk --;Macro-Risks, Micro-Risks, and the Media: The EDB Case --;The Political Symbolism of Occupational Health Risks --;V: Organizations and the Social Construction of Risk --;The Environmental Movement Comes to Town: A Case Study of an Urban Hazardous Waste Controversy --;Communicating Information about Workplace Hazards: Effects on Worker Attitudes Toward Risks --;Defining Risk within a Business Context: Thomas A. Edison, Elihu Thomson, and the a.c-d.c. Controversy, 1885-1900 --;VI: Experts and the Social Construction of Risk --;Risk and the American Engineering Profession: The ASME Boiler Code and American Industrial Safety Standards --;Environmental Risk in Historical Perspective --;OSHA's Carcinogens Standard: Round One on Risk Assessment Models and Assumptions --;Cultural Aspects of Risk Assessment in Britain and the United States --;Index of Subjects.
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But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks, decisions must be made about which risks are important and which risks can safely be ignored.
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Environmental management.
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Environmental sciences.
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Branden B Johnson
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Vincent T Covello
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