Effective Risk Communication - Paperback

by Joseph Arvai (Editor), Louie III Rivers (Editor)

This book brings together the world's leading risk researchers and practitioners to examine risk communication in research and in practice and explore how to make it more effective in future. Beginning with the evolution of risk communication, the book presents the seminal papers on risk communication of the last twenty-five years along with newly written commentaries by the original authors. The authors reflect on the theoretical and applied underpinnings of their best projects and explore how their approaches could best be used by others. By carefully examining the work already done in risk communication, the book shows the way to better, more reflective practice for the future.

Author Biography

Joseph Árvai is the Svare Chair in Applied Decision Research at the University of Calgary, Canada and is a Senior Researcher with Decision Research in Eugene, USA.

Louie Rivers III is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, USA