Accession Number:

ADA281057

Title:

Guidebook for Risk Perception and Communication in Water Resources Planning. Part 1. Underpinnings and Planning Applications

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS LTD CARBONDALE IL

Personal Author(s):

• Russell, Clifford

Report Date:

1993-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

110.0

Abstract:

Part I, Underpinnings and Planning Applications, provides observations theories about how people perceive risk. It establishes guidelines that will assist water resource planners and managers in their efforts to communicate with the public and with decision makers about situations in which risk is important. Public perception, Risk communication and display, Uncertainty, Planning process.

Descriptors:

• *MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL
• *PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• *WATER RESOURCES
• ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
• RISK
• DECISION MAKING
• PERCEPTION
• ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
• SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
• OBSERVATION
• PUBLIC RELATIONS
• RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Civil Engineering
• Environmental Health and Safety

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE