Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Environmental risk and risk perception management in public health

When evaluating environmental risk and its perception, psychosocial and psychosomatic factors may be of fundamental importance for public health programming and the promotion of quality of life. This is the case in particular where knowledge of the true health consequences of environmental exposure to given risk factors are incomplete or its action is within the range of values where we do not ...

Health, safety and environmental risk management in laboratory fields

Background: Research project risks are uncertain contingent events or situations that, if transpire, will have positive or negative effects on objectives of a project. The Management of Health and Safety at Work (MHSW) Regulations 1999 require all employers and the self-employed persons to assess the risks from their work on anyone who may be affected by their activities. Risk assessment is the...

Risk Perception and Communication: Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Child Health

Tobacco use and ETS issues present a significant challenge to conventional notions of risk communication, which were originally formulated in the late 1980s in the context of involuntary public exposures to chemicals, nuclear power, hazardous waste facilities, and similar technologies. Conventional wisdom on this subject encourages us to concentrate on risk message design and delivery parameter...

Environmental Risk Perception, Income, and Ethnicity: Does the Netherlands

Anticipated and experienced emotions in environmental risk perception

Affective forecasting with respect to two environmental risks (ozone depletion, air pollution) was investigated by studying tourists who travelled to either Australia or Bangkok and were thus confronted with one of these risks. We measured anticipated outcome and anticipated emotions before the journey, actually experienced outcome and actually experienced emotions during the journey, and antic...