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9781452258683: The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication
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ISBN 10: 1452258686 ISBN 13: 9781452258683
Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2015

Sinopsis

In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field’s leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science, technology, and crisis. Offering practical insights, the contributors consider risk communication in all contexts and applications—interpersonal, organizational, and societal—offering a wider view of risk communication than other volumes. Importantly, the handbook emphasizes the communication side of risk communication, providing integrative knowledge about the models, audiences, messages, and the media and channels necessary for effective risk communication that enables informed judgments and actions regarding risk.

Editors Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine McComas have significantly contributed to the field of risk communication with this important reference work—a must-have for students, scholars, and risk and crisis communication professionals.

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Acerca de los autores

Hyunyi Cho (PhD, Michigan State University) is a professor of communication at Ohio State University Her program of research examines the effects of communication on judgments and actions relevant to environmental risk and health risk and the role of messages and the media in social change and behavior change processes.



Torsten Reimer (PhD, Free University of Berlin) is an associate professor of communication and psychology at Purdue University. His research focuses on the role of communication in decision making, with the overarching goal of exploring how communication principles facilitate decision making by guiding information processing and reducing information overload.



Katherine A. McComas (PhD, Cornell University) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on how the processes of risk communication influence people’s attitudes and behaviors, including how the perceived fairness of scientific authorities and risk managers influences individuals’ concern about and acceptance of risk-generating activities.

De la contraportada

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the field of risk communication. Leading experts summarize theory, research and practice in a range of disciplines and in relation to issues in diverse applied contexts including health, the environment, science, technology and crisis.

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Editorial
SAGE Publications, Inc
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1452258686
ISBN 13 
9781452258683
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
376
Editor
Cho Hyunyi, Reimer Torsten, McComas Katherine Anne
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