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Risk communication : a handbook for communicating environmental, safety, and health risks / Regina E. Lundgren, Andrea H. McMakin

Author
Lundgren, Regina E., 1959-
Published
[Piscataway, NJ] : IEEE Press ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 362 pages) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators
McMakin, Andrea H., 1957-
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Contents
Introduction -- Approaches to communicating risk -- Laws that mandate risk communication -- Constraints to effective risk communication -- Ethical issues -- Principles of risk communication -- Determine purpose and objectives -- Analyze your audience -- Develop your message -- Determine the appropriate methods -- Set a schedule -- Develop a communication plan -- Information materials -- Visual representation of risks -- Face-to-face communication -- Working with the media -- Stakeholder participation -- Technology-assisted communication -- Evaluating risk communication efforts -- Emergency risk communication -- International risk communication.
Summary
A fully updated edition of the preeminent book on risk communication. For more than a decade, Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks has been a trusted compendium of strategies and guidance for effectively conveying risk information. Managers, scientists, engineers, students, communication specialists, healthcare professionals, agency representatives, and consultants in more than twenty countries have benefited from its contemporary, practical advice on what to do and what to avoid for successful risk communication. Now in its Fourth Edition, the handbook has been updated with expanded coverage of laws, approaches, messages, and technology-based applications such as social media, as well as all-new information on international risk communication.
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ISBN
9780470480120 (electronic bk.)
0470480122 (electronic bk.)
9780470480113 (electronic bk.)
0470480114 (electronic bk.)
0470416890
9780470416891
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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