‘Do not eat fish more than twice a week’. Rational choice regulation and risk communication
Uncertainty transfer from risk assessment to public
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21148741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandrine Blanchemanche (Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives, corresponding author), Stéphan Marette (0000-0002-4982-4049, AgroParisTech), Joris Roosen (0000-0002-3032-399X, Technical University of Munich), Jutta Roosen, P Verger (0000-0002-6650-2391, Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 271-292 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Risk & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8575 • E-ISSN: 1469-8331 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698571003710340 |
| OpenAlex | W2001960063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 68 |
Regulators try to change consumers’ behaviour by issuing advice. This regulatory approach is built on a particular, normative theory of social action that assumes that individuals are unable to make rational decisions when they have imperfect knowledge about risk, and that this deficiency can be overcome by advice that offers them proper information. This paper examines the question, can a regulatory tool based on rational choice theory be efficient in reducing risky behaviours? After considering the debate within the risk-communication community about the use of this kind of a regulatory tool, we analyse (using the example of fish consumption advice) the risk assessment that the advice is derived from. Then we analyse the public response to the advice through the implementation of a five-month experiment among 200 French households. We show that individuals did not change their consumption to comply with the advice. We conclude that the advice transfers the initial uncertainty onto consumers turning it into ambiguity and complexity
Actuarial science · Ambiguity · Business · Economics · Fish · Fishery · Imperfect · Microeconomics · Normative · Perfect information · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Risk Perception and Management
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |