Risk Communication - A Mental Models Approach

Klappentext Thisbook explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Zusammenfassung This book explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Such communications are designed to contain! in readily usable form! the information that people need to make informed decisions about risks to health! safety! and the environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The Carnegie Mellon mental models approach; 3. Creating an expert model of the risk; 4. Mental model interviews; 5. Confirmatory questionnaires; 6. Development and evaluation of communications; 7. Case studies: applications to environmental risks; 8. A mental models approach to HIV/AIDS; 9. Some concluding remarks; Appendices.

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• Authors: Ann Bostrom, Baruch Fischhoff, M. Granger Morgan, M. Granger (Carnegie Mellon University Morgan, M. Granger Fischhoff Morgan, M.granger Fischhoff Morgan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2001
• EAN: 9780521802239
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80223-9
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous