Strategies for risk communication:evolution, evidence, experience

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Corporate Authors: Strategies for Risk Communication: Evolution, Evidence, Experience (2006 Montauk, N.Y; New York Academy of Sciences
Group Author: Tucker W. Troy
Published: Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences,
Publisher Address: Boston, Mass.
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 1128
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xii, 139 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
Publication Frequency: Also issued online.
ISBN: 9781573316811 (pbk.)
1573316814
Index Number: X820
CLC: X820.4-532
X913-532
Call Number: X913-532/S898/2006
Contents: "This volume presents the proceedings of the symposium entitled Strategies for Risk Communication: Evolution, Evidence, Experience. The symposium was held in Montauk, Long Island, New York on May 15-17, 2006"--P. ix.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Strategies for risk communication : evolution, evidence, experience / W. Troy Tucker and Scott Ferson -- Numeracy and the perception and communication of risk / Ellen Peters -- Evolution, risk, and neural representation / Karli K. Watson -- Linguistic uncertainty in qualitative risk analysis and how to minimize it / Janet M. Carey and Mark A. Burgman -- Transparency in risk communication : graphical and analog tools / Elke Kurz-Milcke, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Laura Martignon -- Visualizing seismic risk and uncertainty : a review of related research / Ann Bostrom, Luc Anselin, and