Perilous Progress
Managing the Hazards of Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4042334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harry Otway, H J Otway, William Cannell, Robert W Kates, Christopher Hohenemser, Jeanne X Kasperson |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/143853 |
| OpenAlex | W1999470513 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
This book presents a comparative perspective of technological risks confronting contemporary society. The authors provide a framework for thinking about hazards and hazard management, for measuring the consequences of technological risk for society, and for assessing the appropriateness of various hazard management techniques
Business · Environmental planning · Environmental Science · Knowledge Management and Technology · Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Risk Communication
Watt's the risk
Eliciting public concerns about an emerging energy technology
Fear and loathing
The increasing exposure of cities to the effects of volcanic eruptions
How to Track Adaptation to Climate Change
The Perception of Cyber and Traditional Risks
Percepções sobre os riscos das mudanças climáticas no contexto da região semiárida do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Characterizing hospital workers' willingness to report to duty in an influenza pandemic through threat- and efficacy-based assessment
Local public health workers' perceptions toward responding to an influenza pandemic
The Human Genome Project
Face it and shoulder it jointly
Participant‐focused analysis
Toward a method for the rapid collection of public concerns and benefits of emerging energy technologies
Application of early risk detection concepts and methods to environmental health. A German feasibility study
Temporal stability and changes in risk perception rankings of hazardous activities and technologies
Expert relevance and the use of context-driven heuristic processes in risk perception
A relational theory of risk
The Influence of Information Delivery on Risk Ranking by Lay People
Accounting for Variation in the Explanatory Power of the Psychometric Paradigm
Dread and unknown characteristics of particulate matter pollution
The ‘Typhoon Eye Effect’
Analytics for local knowledge
Risk perception of the Covid-19 vaccines
The Impacts of Precautionary Measures and the Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty on EMF Risk Perception and Trust
Investigating heterogeneity in food risk perceptions using best-worst scaling
Perception of technological risk
Determinants of smallholder farmers' perceptions of risk in the Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia
A multi-attribute approach to assess homeland security risk
The Scandinavian way of perceiving societal risks
Trust, acceptance and knowledge of technological and environmental hazards in Chile
How do we perceive heroes
Dispute and morality in the perception of societal risks
Societal risk perception among Egyptian adolescents and young adults
Informing about climate change and invasive species
Campground Manager and User Perceptions of Risk Associated with Negative Human–Black Bear Interactions
Linking Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue Attention Cycle
The undersecuritization of Covid-19 in Japan
Public attitudes towards mental health facilities in the community
Foodborne microbial risks in the press
Perception of pro-environmental behavior
Impact assessments and policy responses to sea-level rise in three US states
Climate of Opinion
Mask On, Mask Off
Societal risks as seen by a Norwegian public
Unpacking perceived control in risk perception
Cognitive components in risk perception
Culture versus other sources of variance in risk and benefit perceptions
Understanding actor-centered adaptation limits in smallholder agriculture in the Central American dry tropics
Reactions to incongruous negative life events
Bargaining with Uncertainty
Perceptions of risk characteristics of earthquakes compared to other hazards and their impact on risk tolerance
The human ecology of global change
Re-specifying disaster risk
How Should Governments Make Risky Policy Decisions
Food risk communication
Gender difference in the health risk perception of radiation from Fukushima in Japan
Risky Science? Perception and Negotiation of Risk in University Bioscience
Recency negativity
Consumer concerns and expectations about novel food processing technologies
The Terrible Geographicalness of Terrorism
Public Responses to Technological Risks
Cognitive Representation of Risk Perceptions
The Perception of Environmental Risks among Ethnically Diverse Groups
Management von Ungewissheiten in bezug auf die globale Erwärmung
The Perception and Communication of Risk
Safe place or ‘catastrophic society’? Perspectives on hazards and disasters in Canada
Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms
An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability
Demographic Influences on Risk Perceptions
A Quantitative Test of the Cultural Theory of Risk Perceptions
GM Foods and the Misperception of Risk Perception
The Songlines of Risk
The social amplification of risk framework
Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity
Testing four competing theories of health-protective behavior.
Excluded Perspectives in the Social Construction of Disaster
Stormwater Management in a Time of Climate Change
Geohazard vulnerability assessment in Qiaojia seismic zones, SW China
Blame avoidance of street-level bureaucrats in 5G Nimby crisis decision making
Public Vulnerability to the Police
A brief history of risk
Climate Change
In what sense does the public need to understand global climate change
The Social Amplification and Attenuation of Risk
Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places
The Allegedly Simple Structure of Experts' Risk Perception
A County-Level Risk Assessment of the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,32 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2025 (38) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |