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Yim Ling Siu : On-line Abstract of the Selected Publication

 

Paper:

Risk Communication And The Dynamics Of Environmental Risk Knowledge

 
Author:

Dr Sally Macgill, School of the Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. (Died in the Asian tsunami on 26 December 2004)

Dr Yim Ling Siu, School of the Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. e-mail: Y.L.Siu@Leeds.ac.uk (Tel: +44 113 3436717; fax +44 133 3436716)

(Paper publisehed in: Aepli, Marie-France, Delicath, John, & Depoe, Stephen (eds.) (2001) Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment, July 27-31, 2001, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Cincinnati: Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati.)

 
Abstract: In this paper a new theoretical conceptualisation of risk communication is developed and illustrated, in which the natural role of risk communication is seen to be inseparable from the social dynamics of risk issues more generally. This new conceptualisation draws on a major reformulation of the nature of risk previously developed by the authors (Macgill and Siu 2001). It places risk communication at the heart of the process dynamics of risk issues over time. The new conceptualisation is illustrated in the context of the evolution of societal risk concerns in the UK over genetically modified (GM) crops.

 

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