Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks - Couverture souple

Lundgren, Regina E.; McMakin, Andrea H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470416890 ISBN 13 : 9780470416891

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

When health, safety, or environmental risks take center stage, communicating risk information can be a daunting challenge. Professionals, scientists, engineers, and students will benefit from the contemporary, practical advice offered here on what to do and what to avoid for successful risk communication. Outstanding features include the melding of scientific research with hands-on advice from risk practitioners. The book is a valuable introduction to the field as well as a refresher and reference book for practitioners.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Regina E. Lundgren is an independent consultant with more than twenty years of experience in communicating environmental, safety, and health risks to lay audiences. The recipient of national and international awards, she developed the risk communication plan for the most sophisticated cancer cluster investigation in the nation's history and one of the first state-level public health emergency risk communication plans. Andrea H. Mcmakin is a marketing and communications specialist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory. For more than twenty years, she's been involved with risk communication programs in national and global security, climate change, health and environmental impacts, worker chemical exposure, and risk perception research. Her work has been published and cited in technical journals, scientific and trade publications, and major regional newspapers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470416890
• ISBN 13: 9780470416891
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible