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Terje Aven () and Ortwin Renn ()
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Terje Aven: University of Stavanger
Ortwin Renn: University of Stuttgart

Chapter Chapter 14 in Risk Management and Governance, 2010, pp 235-238 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Our analysis has shown that narrow risk concepts based on probabilistic risk assessments, which produce numerical probabilities derived from experiments, models, expert judgements, and/or scenario techniques, provide society only with a limited scope of what humans might value. The economic, psychological and social science perspectives on risk broaden the scope of undesirable effects, includes other ways of expressing possibilities and likelihood, and expand the horizon of risk outcomes by referring to “socially constructed” or “socially mediated” realities. The psychological, social and cultural experience of risk includes the perception of actual damage; but it is more focused on the evaluation of the risk context, the non-physical impacts and the associations between the risk and social or cultural artefacts.

Keywords: Risk Perception; Risk Communication; Risk Policy; Risk Governance; Risk Context (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13926-0_14

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