Regina E. Lundgren; Andrea H. McMakinRisk Communication

Hauptbeschreibung
A fully updated handbook on effectively communicatingenvironmental, safety, and health risks

Written by two well-known risk practitioners with overtwenty-five years' experience in the field, this fully updatedFifth Edition of Risk Communication: A Handbook forCommunicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks offerssound, scientific research with practical, hands-on advice forthose in the public and private sectors.

Highly accessible and easy to understand, this must-readincludes real-life examples of such headline-making events as thetsunami and radiation release in Japan in 2011, the BP oil disasterin the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, and extreme weather events, alongwith the lessons learned from them. It offers new chapters onpublic health campaigns, and on the use and effectiveness of socialmedia for risk communication purposes.

Risk Communication is divided into five self-containedparts:
* Part I provides background information for understandingthe basic theories and practices of risk communication
* Part II explains how to plan a risk communicationeffort
* Part III describes how to put risk communication intoaction
* Part IV discusses how to evaluate risk communicationefforts, including techniques for measuring success
* Part V highlights special cases in risk communication,including disasters and other emergencies, international riskcommunication, and public health campaigns

An ideal introduction to the field, this book is also a welcomereference for those involved in communicating environmental,safety, and health risks in government, industry, and academia.

Besprechung
"Occupational health professionals, and indeed anyone whose work involves communicating risk, will find this book an informative and interesting read. I will certainly dip into it the next time I am asked to deliver a presentation on the hazards of a workplace agent or lead a health promotion campaign." (Occupational Medicine, 1 September 2015)

"Even though this is written specifically for an American audience, it is a proper handbook with many checklists, references and examples which should help anyone who may need to communicate risk to do so in an organised and effective manner." (RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal, 1 February 2014)

REGINA E. LUNDGREN is an independent consultant andtrainer for both government and industry who specializes incommunicating environmental, safety, and health risks, and is aformer research scientist for the Pacific Northwest NationalLaboratory in Richland, Washington. Her publications have wonnational awards for their usability. She has led risk communicationefforts for a variety of environmental, safety, and health issues,including Superfund cleanup, cancer cluster investigation, andbioterrorism planning as well as helped design risk assessmentmodels for stakeholder use.

ANDREA H. McMAKIN is a communication specialist at thePacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Sheworks with government and industry clients on communicating risksand other information concerning science, technology, and business.She's contributed to risk communication programs involving cancerclusters, health and environmental impacts from waste and Superfundsites, international nuclear and biological safety, worker chemicalexposure, global climate change, and risk perception research.

• Arbeitssicherheit u. Umweltschutz i. d. Chemie
• Chemical and Environmental Health and Safety
• Chemie
• Chemistry
• Communication & Media Studies
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• Informatik
• Kommunikation u. Medienforschung
• Technical Communication
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