Effective risk communication [electronic resource] / edited by Joseph Arvai and Louie Rivers III.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A relational theory of risk : lessons for risk communication / Asa Boholm and Herve Corvellec -- 2. Video interventions for risk communication and decision-making / Julie S. Downs -- 3. Communicating inconclusive scientific evidence / Peter M. Wiedemann, Franziska U. Boerner and Holger Schutz -- 4. Communicating about uncertainty in multistakeholder groups / Robin Gregory and Nate Dieckmann -- 5. New transparency policies : risk communication's doom? / Ragnar E. Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder -- 6. Social distrust and its implications for risk communication : an example from high level radioactive waste management / Seth P. Tuler and Roger E. Kasperson -- 7. Fairness, public engagement, and risk communication / John C. Besley and Katherine A. McComas -- 8. Why risk communicators should care about the fairness and competence of their public engagement process / Thomas Webler -- 9. Risk communication in social media / Liz Neeley -- 10. The 'mental models' methodology for developing communications : adaptations for informing public risk management decisions about emerging technologies / Lauren A. Fleishman-Mayer and Wandi Bruine De Bruin -- 11. Construing risk : implications for risk communication Adam Zwickle and Robyn S. Wilson -- 12. Risk communication and moral emotions / Sabine Roeser and Jessica Nihlen Fahlquist -- 13. The role of channel beliefs in risk information seeking / Sharon Dunwoody and Robert J. Griffin -- 14. Risk communication : insights from the decision sciences / Joseph Arvai and Victoria Campbell-Arvai -- 15. Risk communication for empowerment : an ultimate or elusive goal? / Cindy G. Jardine and S.M. Driedger -- 16. Learning from failures / William Leiss -- 17. Exploring unintended consequences of risk communication messages / Charles T. Salmon, Sahara Byrne and Laleah Fernandez -- 18. Boomerang effects in risk communication / P. Sol Hart -- 19. The role of social and decision sciences in communicating uncertain climate risks / Nick Pidgeon and Baruch Fischhoff.