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PAPERBACK list:$67.50 Web:$60.75 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $52.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Scientific Review of the Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin from the Office of Management and Budget Review of the Worker and Public Health Activities Program Administered by the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and Human Services Other Related Titles Improving Risk Communication (1989) Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 320   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 320 Front Matter (R1-R20) Summary (1-13) 1 Introduction (14-29) 2 Understanding Hazards and Risks (30-53) 3 Conflict About Hazards and Risks (54-71) 4 Purposes of Risk Communication and Risk Messages (72-93) 5 Common Misconceptions About Risk Communication (94-107) 6 Problems of Risk Communication (108-142) 7 Recommendations for Improving Risk Communication (143-182) Appendixes (183-184) Appendix A: Background Information on Committee Members and Professional Staff (185-192) Appendix B: Bibliography (193-210) Appendix C: Risk- A Guide to Controversy (211-319) Appendix D: Availability of Working Papers (320-320) Appendix E: Key Terms and Distinctions (321-322) Index (323-332)

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Appendix D Availability of Working Papers Photocopies of the working papers of the Committee on Risk Perception and Communication are available from the National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20418. . Case Study: "The 1980/82 Medfly Controversy in CaTifor- nia," by Emory M. Roe. . Case Study: "Communicating Corporate Disaster: The Aldi- carb Oxime Release at the Union Carbide Plant at Institute, West Virginia, on August 11, 1985," by Rob Coppock. 320

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