The Social Contours Of Risk

by Kasperson, Jeanne X.; Kasperson, Roger E.

• ISBN13: 9781844070725
• ISBN10: 1844070727
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. Jeanne and Roger Kasperson are two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk. "The Social Contours of Risk" brings together in two volumes their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume 1 collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities, corporations and the larger society. It analyzes the problems of lack of transparency and trust and explores how even minor effects can be amplified and distorted through media and social responses, preventing effective management. The final section investigates the difficult ethical issues raised by the unequal distribution of risk depending on factors such as wealth, location and genetic inheritance -- with examples from worker and public protection, facility siting conflicts, transporting hazardous waste and widespread impacts such as climate change.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
List of Boxes	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xii
Introduction and Overview	1	(18)
Roger E. Kasperson
Part 1 Communicating Risk and Involving Publics
Six Propositions on Public Participation and Their Relevance for Risk Communication	19	(10)
Roger E. Kasperson
Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks	29	(22)
Roger E. Kasperson
Dominic Golding
Seth Tuler
Evaluating Risk Communication	51	(17)
Roger E. Kasperson
Ingar Palmlund
Considerations and Principles for Risk Communication for Industrial Accidents	68	(27)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Risk and the Stakeholder Express	95	(20)
Roger E. Kasperson
Part 2 The Social Amplification of Risk
The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework	99
Roger E. Kasperson
Ortwin Renn
Paul Slovic
Halina S. Brown
Jacque Emel
Robert Goble
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Samuel Ratick
Hidden Hazards	115	(18)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Media Risk Signals and the Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, 1985--1989	133	(28)
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Betty Jean Perkins
Ortwin Renn
Allen L. White
Stigma and the Social Amplification of Risk: Towards a Framework of Analysis	161	(20)
Roger E. Kasperson
Nayna Jhaveri
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Risk, Trust and Democratic Theory	181	(21)
Roger E. Kasperson
Dominic Golding
Jeanne X. Kasperson
The Social Amplification of Risk: Assessing 15 Years of Research and Theory	202	(31)
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Nick Pidgeon
Paul Slovic
Part 3 Risk and Ethicss
Responding to the Double Standard of Worker/Public Protection	233	(13)
Patrick Derr
Robert Goble
Roger E. Kasperson
Robert W. Kates
Developmental and Geographical Equity in Global Environmental Change: A Framework for Analysis	246	(19)
Roger E. Kasperson
Kirstin M. Dow
Redirecting the US High-Level Radioactive Waste Programme	265	(16)
James Flynn
Roger E. Kasperson
Howard Kunreuther
Paul Slovic
Siting Hazardous Facilities: Searching for Effective Institutions and Processes	281	(20)
Roger E. Kasperson
Climate Change, Vulnerability and Social Justice	301	(21)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
References	322	(26)
Index	348
List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
List of Boxes	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xii
Introduction and Overview	1	(18)
Roger E. Kasperson
Part 1 Risk and Society: Framing the Issues
Acceptability of Human Risk	19	(10)
Roger E. Kasperson
Societal Response to Hazards and Major Hazard Events: Comparing Natural and Technological Hazards	29	(21)
Roger E. Kasperson
K. David Pijawka
Large-scale Nuclear Risk Analysis: Its Impacts and Future	50	(21)
Roger E. Kasperson
James E. Dooley
Bengt Hansson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Timothy O'Riordan
Herbert Paschen
Part 2 Corporations and Risk
Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research	71	(16)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Christoph Hohenemser
Robert W. Kates
Avoiding Future Bhopals	87	(24)
B. Bowonder
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Emergency Planning for Industrial Crises: An Overview	111	(7)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Corporate Culture and Technology Transfer	118	(26)
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal	144	(23)
B. Bowonder
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Part 3 The Globalization of Risk
Hazards in Developing Countries: Cause for Global Concern	167	(5)
B. Bowonder
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Priorities in Profile: Managing Risks in Developing Countries	172	(8)
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Risk and Criticality: Trajectories of Regional Environmental Degradation	180	(18)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
B. L. Turner, II
Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, Massachusetts, US	198	(19)
George E. Clark
Susanne C. Moser
Samuel J. Ratick
Kirstin Dow
William B. Meyer
Srinivas Emani
Weigen Jin
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Harry E. Schwarz
Border Crossings	217	(28)
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change	245	(41)
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
B. L. Turner, II
Wen Hsieh
Andrew Schiller
References	286	(33)
Index	319