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2. The social amplification of risk framework: New perspectives

Author

Roger E, Kasperson, Thomas, Webler, Bonnie, Ram, and Jeannette, Sutton

Subjects
Physiology (medical), Humans, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Risk Assessment, Social Media
Abstract

Several decades have elapsed since the introduction in 1988 of the social amplification of risk framework (SARF) by researchers from Clark University and Decision Research. SARF was offered as an umbrella under which social, psychological, and cultural theories of risk could be integrated and thereby supplement technical risk analyses. Some critics suggest that SARF cannot be tested thus, the framework is useful, at most, as a post hoc analysis of some kinds of risks. Others counter that predictability is not required for a framework to be useful and that SARF is an effective tool in organizing data related to public perceptions, values, and behaviors. It can also be used to design more effective risk communication and public engagement strategies. SARF also suggests how to conceptually view the dynamics of social media channels, despite the fact that SARF was developed before the explosion of global digital platforms. The papers in this special issue consider developments, refinements, critiques, contributions, extensions of the approach to new risk issues, as well as the findings and hypotheses that have grown out of what is now close to three decades of empirical research. This introductory paper provides background on SARF, presents a literature review since 2003, introduces the contributions to this issue, and highlights several areas for future research.

Published
2022

3. Border Crossings

Author

Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger E. Kasperson

Published
2022

15. Risk and Criticality: Trajectories of Regional Environmental Degradation

Author

Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and Billie Turner

Subjects
Geography, business.industry, Amazon rainforest, Environmental resource management, Threatened species, Developing country, business, China, Natural resource, Environmental degradation, Risk management, Pace
Abstract

This article discusses major findings from an international project exploring the causes and consequences of growing environmental risks over a 50-70 year period in nine regions distributed throughout the world. The project centered at Clark University in the US studied the regions of Amazonia the Eastern Sundaland region of southeast Asia the Ukambani region of southeastern Kenya the Nepal Middle Mountains the Ordos Plateau of China the Aral Sea the southern High Plains of the US the Mexico City Region and the North Sea. The researchers considered the notion of criticality and developing definitions and a classification of environmentally threatened regions. In addition the development of concepts and methods used in the study as well as crosscutting findings that emerged is discussed. The authors of this article argue that a growing disjuncture exists in the regions between the rapid rates of environmental degradation and the slow pace of societal response. Subsequently this situation threatens environmental impoverishment and loss of options for future generations and escalating costs of substitution in resource use and risk mitigation efforts.

Published
2022

18. How will food and water be protected?

Author

John E. Seley, Charles P. Wolf, Dominic Golding, Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Gordon Thompson, and Robert Goble

Published
2021

24. What are the objectives of the plan?

Author

Jeanne X. Kasperson, Robert Goble, Gordon Thompson, Charles P. Wolf, Roger E. Kasperson, Dominic Golding, and John E. Seley

Subjects
Operations management, Plan (drawing), Business
Published
2021

25. How will relocation decisions be made?

Author

Robert Goble, Charles P. Wolf, Dominic Golding, John E. Seley, Gordon Thompson, Roger E. Kasperson, and Jeanne X. Kasperson

Subjects
Business, Relocation, Environmental planning
Published
2021

26. How did emergency planning develop?

Author

John E. Seley, Dominic Golding, Charles P. Wolf, Robert Goble, Gordon Thompson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Roger E. Kasperson

Subjects
medicine, Emergency planning, Business, Medical emergency, medicine.disease
Published
2021

27. How are nuclear accidents classified?

Author

Robert Goble, Dominic Golding, John E. Seley, Charles P. Wolf, Gordon Thompson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Roger E. Kasperson

Published
2021

29. Who has what responsibilities in emergency planning?*

Author

Jeanne X. Kasperson, Robert Goble, Charles P. Wolf, John E. Seley, Roger E. Kasperson, Gordon Thompson, and Dominic Golding

Subjects
medicine, Emergency planning, Business, Medical emergency, medicine.disease
Published
2021

31. What are the Emergency Planning Zones?

Author

Roger E. Kasperson, Dominic Golding, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Gordon Thompson, John E. Seley, Robert Goble, and Charles P. Wolf

Subjects
medicine, Emergency planning, Business, Medical emergency, medicine.disease
Published
2021

32. How will medical treatment be organized?

Author

Gordon Thompson, John E. Seley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Charles P. Wolf, Roger E. Kasperson, Robert Goble, and Dominic Golding

Subjects
Medical treatment, business.industry, medicine, Medical emergency, medicine.disease, business
Published
2021

33. Introduction

Author

Dominic Golding, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Robert Goble, John E. Seley, Gordon Thompson, and Charles P. Wolf

Published
2021

34. What is a nuclear emergency?

Author

Robert Goble, Dominic Golding, Charles P. Wolf, John E. Seley, Gordon Thompson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Roger E. Kasperson

Published
2021

35. Will an emergency plan assure safety?

Author

Robert Goble, Roger E. Kasperson, Charles P. Wolf, John E. Seley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Gordon Thompson, and Dominic Golding

Subjects
medicine, Emergency plan, Business, Medical emergency, medicine.disease
Published
2021

36. What public-education programs will be provided?

Author

Gordon Thompson, Charles P. Wolf, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Dominic Golding, Robert Goble, John E. Seley, and Roger E. Kasperson

Subjects
business.industry, Political science, Public relations, Public education, business
Published
2021

37. How is radiation harmful to human beings?

Author

Jeanne X. Kasperson, Gordon Thompson, Robert Goble, Charles P. Wolf, John E. Seley, Roger E. Kasperson, and Dominic Golding

Subjects
business.industry, Medicine, Environmental ethics, business
Published
2021

40. Managing Nuclear Accidents

Author

Dominic Golding, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Robert Goble, John E. Seley, Gordon Thompson, and Charles P. Wolf

Published
2021

46. Tiered Approach to Resilience Assessment

Author

Laura Read, Richard H. Moss, Marie-Valentine Florin, William Hynes, Mari R. Tye, José Manuel Palma-Oliveira, David D. Woods, James C. Arnott, Kirk Hatfield, John Katzenberger, Dale Sands, A. Jovanovic, Roger S. Pulwarty, Emanuele Bellini, Cate Fox-Lent, Peter S. Murdoch, Jon Coaffee, Patrick W. Keys, Roger E. Kasperson, Igor Linkov, James H. Lambert, Edward A. Thomas, Craig R. Allen, and Iain Hyde

Subjects
Risk analysis, 021110 strategic, defence & security studies, Scope (project management), Computer science, Business process, business.industry, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Stakeholder, 02 engineering and technology, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, Systems analysis, Resource (project management), Risk analysis (engineering), Physiology (medical), Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Resilience (network), business, Risk management, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

Regulatory agencies have long adopted a three-tier framework for risk assessment. We build on this structure to propose a tiered approach for resilience assessment that can be integrated into the existing regulatory processes. Comprehensive approaches to assessing resilience at appropriate and operational scales, reconciling analytical complexity as needed with stakeholder needs and resources available, and ultimately creating actionable recommendations to enhance resilience are still lacking. Our proposed framework consists of tiers by which analysts can select resilience assessment and decision support tools to inform associated management actions relative to the scope and urgency of the risk and the capacity of resource managers to improve system resilience. The resilience management framework proposed is not intended to supplant either risk management or the many existing efforts of resilience quantification method development, but instead provide a guide to selecting tools that are appropriate for the given analytic need. The goal of this tiered approach is to intentionally parallel the tiered approach used in regulatory contexts so that resilience assessment might be more easily and quickly integrated into existing structures and with existing policies.

Published
2018

48. Causal Structure: A Framework for Policy Formulation

Author

Roger E. Kasperson, Robert W. Kates, and Christoph Hohenemser

Subjects
Microeconomics, Mechanism (biology), media_common.quotation_subject, Control (management), Economics, Causal structure, Free market, Function (engineering), Hazard, Variety (cybernetics), media_common, Causal model
Abstract

This chapter considers the magnitude of the technological hazard burden, as measured by hazard consequences, the anatomy of hazards, as described by a generally applicable "causal model" and a taxonomy of technological hazard based on this causal model. The degree of control that society achieves over particular hazards depends strongly on the character of institutions and laws, as well as perceptions of individuals. Nature and technology are both implicated in most hazards. A great deal of feedback takes place in the way individuals strike a balance between hazard creation and reductioa. Thus it is possible for effective feedback to occur through a "free market" mechanism, or through explicit regulatory actions. Technological hazards are classified in a variety of apparently inconsistent ways, ranging from technological source, to function or purpose, to exposed population, to environmental pathway, to any or all varieties of consequences.

Published
2019

49. Policies and Politics

Author

Roger E. Kasperson, Lydia Dotto, Alvin Mushkatel, Paul Slovic, C. K. Mertz, Howard Kunreuther, James Chalmers, Doug Easterling, James Flynn, and K. David Pijawka

Subjects
Politics, Political economy, Political science
Published
2019

50. Complexity and Uncertainty

Author

C. K. Mertz, Paul Slovic, Alvin Mushkatel, Roger E. Kasperson, Howard Kunreuther, Lydia Dotto, Doug Easterling, K. David Pijawka, James Flynn, and James Chalmers

Published
2019

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