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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Risk Communication"”.
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Visual Anthropological Methods in Earthquake Risk Communication: A Transdisciplinary Approach
… a fundamental rethinking of prevailing disaster risk reduction measures, including risk communication principles and practices. The resulting paradigm shift towards participation, action, and prevention is firmly outlined in the Sendai Framework’s call for (1) more people-centred approaches and …
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Speak no evil: the promotional heritage of nuclear risk communication
… the owner/operators to acknowledge certain risks (e.g., radiation, nuclear plant accidents, evacuation, etc.) that face people living near nuclear generating plants. This dissertation critiques the effectiveness of pre-emergency risk communication strategies by nuclear utilities. …
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Bio-terrorism: steps to effective public health risk communication and fear management
… public health system to respond to terrorism: risk communication. Unless this system is better structured to provide American citizens with a clear understanding of the potential risks and hazards associated with a terrorist event -- particularly a bio-terrorism event -- citizens not only run …
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Race, Class, Risk and Trust: Risk Communication in Post-Katrina New Orleans
<p>The main focus of this study is on risk communication about dangerous environmental events in post-Katrina New Orleans, and the influence that race and class have on that process. It seeks to determine the assessment of New Orleans residents of the various possible sources of risk information …
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SCENE MATTERS: STRATEGIC USE OF SIMILARITY AND FRAMING IN NARRATIVE RISK COMMUNICATION
Human health risks and environmental risks are different and are perceived differently; health risks primarily threaten human health, whereas environmental risks threaten both human and environmental health. Nonetheless people tend to view environmental risks as impersonal, primarily threatening …
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Local Emergency Planning Committees: Collaboration, Risk Communication, Information Technology and Homeland Security
… operational effectiveness, collaboration, risk communication, information technology (IT), and homeland security as important issues for LEPCs. However, a lack of research on the interaction of these fields raises several questions that were addressed in this study: 1. How is the …
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Safety at the Margins: A Rhetorical Analysis of Occupational Risk Communication in Construction
This dissertation focuses on occupational risk communication created by grantees of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration\'s Susan Harwood Training Grant (SHTG) Program. Although the SHTG program is aimed at workers in most high-hazard industries, I focus on occupational risk …
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Cultural Differences in Risk Perception: An Examination of USA and Ghanaian Perception of Risk Communication
… the awareness and need to better communicate risk and hazard information for consumer and manufacturing products. The purpose of this research was to examine cultural differences associated with risk communication and risk perception. The research observed cultural differences in hazard …
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Making Information Count: Highlighting Discrepancies Between Risk Perception and Risk Communication in Combined Description/Experience Settings
A problem currently facing risk communicators is how to modify risk perception and risky behavior among people who have previously engaged in a targeted risky behavior, given that research suggests that they are more strongly influenced by their personal experience of the probabilities associated …
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Media social responsibility and risk communication : a critical analysis of newspaper headlines of the SARS outbreak
… public education and conveying perspective about risk from the disease.</p> <p>This study developed an analytical framework to evaluate the extent of fearful language, style of communication about risk of the disease, use of source material, and prevalence of journalistic normative behaviors. The …
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Risk communication as a strategy to combat maternal mortality in Nigeria: a case study in Rivers State
… attendants, thereby, indicating the need for a risk communication, thus increasing the chances of potentially avoidable maternal deaths. A mental models approach to developing risk communication was applied to this study to elicit the knowledge of maternal health experts and lay people, in order …
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Chronic wasting disease as a model for the development of risk communication using the mental models approach
… chronic wasting disease (CWD) as a model for risk communication development using the mental models approach, this dissertation examines: 1) how published CWD risk communications compare to expert recommendations; 2) whether the experts and members of relevant stakeholder groups agree upon the …
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Linguistic and Cultural Considerations for English–Spanish Short Message Risk Communication Best Practices in Guatemala and the United States
… dissertation assesses short message emergency communication on government alert systems in Guatemala and the United States in tropical cyclone (TC) scenarios. First, it explores emergency communication in Guatemala to understand how the guidance for short emergency communication established by …
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Media exposure, policy agenda setting and risk communication in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Nigeria's Niger Delta region
… alerted the public and key opinion formers to risk-related issues / conflict in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region in order to shape the Nigerian public policy sphere as a response to the reoccurring [1958-2009] conflict between the government, oil host communities and independent multinational oil …
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