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Explaining Environmental Risk:
Selected Bibliography

By Peter M. Sandman

Published by TSCA Assistance Office, Office of Toxic Substances,
U.S. EPA, Nov. 1986 booklet pp. 14-25.

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Updated: 10 November 2001

ball Covello, Vincent T., “The Perception of Technological Risks: A Literature Review,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 1983, pp. 285-287.

ball Covello, Vincent T., Detlof von Winterfeldt, and Paul Slavic, “Communicating Scientific Information about Health and Environmental Risks: Problems and Opportunities from a Social and Behavioral Perspective,” in V. Covello, A. Moghissi, and V.R.R. Uppuluri, Uncertainties in Risk Assessment and Risk Management (New York: Plenum Press, 1986), in press.

ball Fischhoff, Baruch, “Protocols for Environmental Reporting: What to Ask the Experts,” The Journalist (Foundation for American Communications), Winter 1985, pp. 11-15.

ball Klaidman, Stephen, “Health Risk Reporting,” Institute for Health Policy Analysis, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1985.

ball Mazur, Allan, “Media Coverage and Public Opinion on Scientific Controversies,” Journal of Communication, 1981, pp. 106-115.

ball Mazur, Allan, “Bias in Risk-Benefit Analysis,” Technology in Society, 1985, pp. 25-30.

ball Nelkin, Dorothy, Science in the Streets (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1984).

ball President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, Report of the Public’s Right to Information Task Force (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979).

ball Ruckelshaus, William, “Risk in a Free Society,” Risk Analysis, September 1984, pp. 157-163.

ball Sandman, Peter M., “Getting to Maybe: Some Communications Aspects of Hazardous Waste Facility Siting,” Seton Hall Legislative Journal, Spring 1986.

ball Sandman, Peter M., David B. Sachsman, Michael Greenberg, Mayme Jurkat, Audrey R. Gotsch, and Michael Gochfeld, “Environmental Risk Reporting in New Jersey Newspapers,” Environmental Risk Reporting Project, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University, January 1986.

ball Sharlin, Harold I., “EDB: A Case Study in the Communication of Health Risk,” Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, January 1985.

ball Slovic, Paul, “Informing and Educating the Public About Risk,” Decision Research Report 85-5, November 1984.

ball Slovic, Paul, Baruch Fischhoff, and Sarah Lichtenstein, “Facts and Fears: Understanding Perceived Risk,” in R.C. Schwing and W. Albers, eds., Societal Risk Assessment: How Safe Is Safe Enough? (New York: Plenum, 1980), pp. 181-216.

ball Weinstein, Neil D., and Peter M. Sandman, “Recommendations for a Radon Risk Communication Program,” Office of Science and Research, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, November 1985.

© 1986 By Peter M. Sandman Back to articles list

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Explaining Environmental Risk

          ball   Part 1: “Important if True!”

          ball   Part 2: Dealing with the Media

          ball   Part 3: Dealing with the Public

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