Risk Response to Environmental Hazards to Health – Towards an Ecological Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12598403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Briggs (0000-0002-6796-7086, Imperial College London, corresponding author), Richard Stern (0000-0003-0034-1385, Imperial College London), Richard M Stern (0000-0003-0557-7282, Imperial College London) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 593-622 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Risk Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-9877 • E-ISSN: 1466-4461 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13669870701315799 |
| OpenAlex | W1992231656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
Response to risks can be seen as an ecological process, involving a community of actors whose perceptions and actions play off each other, and whose responses help to determine the way in which risk events play out. Risk governance thus needs to take account of how the many different stakeholders caught up in the event respond to the perceived risks. The NATO‐MoD funded MERREA project was aimed at exploring these processes of risk response through a series of case studies, as a basis for developing more effective risk governance strategies. This paper describes the study and summarises results from a cross‐cutting analysis of the case studies. It highlights five key issues: the inadequate identification and characterisation of stakeholders that occurs in many risk situations; the importance of given and self‐adopted roles in determining stakeholders' understanding and expectations of risk; the importance of recognising both formal and informal channels of risk communication in any risk situation, requiring the establishment of effective and open channels of communication well in advance of any event; the need to recognise, admit and communicate uncertainty in risk situations if trust is to be maintained; and the importance of establishing lead organisations for risk governance who carry the trust of all the stakeholders concerned
Business · Computer security · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Event (particle physics · Identification (biology · Key (lock · Perception · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Risk analysis (engineering · Risk assessment · Risk communication · Risk Governance · Risk management · Risk perception · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Ecology
Defining Uncertainty
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication as an Integrative Model
Social Dilemmas
Risk communication, the West Nile virus epidemic, and bioterrorism
Public preferences for informed choice under conditions of risk uncertainty
Health risk communication and amplification
The Social Amplification of Risk
The Social Amplification of Risk
Perceived Risk, Trust, and Democracy
Communication dimensions of the UK foot and mouth disease crisis, 2001
Mad Cow Disease — Painting Policy‐Making into a Corner
Stakeholder Participation in Investigating the Health Impacts from Coal‐Fired Power Generating Stations in Alberta, Canada
Involving Stakeholders
Responding Public Demand for Assurance of Genetically Modified Crops
Climate Change
Towards an Early Warning System for Heat Events
The British 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis
Precautionary Risk Regulation in European Governance
Risk communication, value judgments, and the public-policy maker relationship in a climate of public sensitivity toward animals
BSE in the UK
Impact of a local newspaper campaign on the uptake of the measles mumps and rubella vaccine
In Their Own Words
Public participation in decision making
State Intervention and Abuse of the Commons
Behavior, communication, and assumptions about other people's behavior in a commons dilemma situation
Interconnected networks and the governance of risk and trust
Bureaucratic Failure and the UK's Lack of Preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease
The Danger of Self-Evident Truths
A Theory of Role Strain
Toward a Theory of Role Accumulation
Recent Developments in Role Theory
Hardin Revisited
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |