...rewarding framework for analyzing risk communication The main thesis of the social amplification concept is that events pertaining to hazards interact with psychological,...cultural processes in ways that can heighten or attenuate public perceptions of risk and shape risk behavior. Behavioral patterns, in turn, generate secondary...

...economic, environmental, and ethical issues. The secondary consequences, in turn, serve as events that interact with psychological, social, institutional, and cultural processes in ways that can further heighten or attenuate perceptions of risks and shape risk behavior. Risk amplification occurs...

...Making this point, Kasperson (l992) concluded, The concept of social amplification of risk is hased on the thesis that events pertaining to hazards interact...heighten or attenuate perceptions of risk and shape risk hehavior. Behavioral responses, in turn, generate secondary social or economic consequences. These...

...In 1 988, Kasperson and colleagues proposed a novel approach to study the social response to risk. The concept of social amplification of risk is based...cultural processes in ways that can heighten or attenuate individual and social perceptions of risk and shape risk behavior. Behavioral patterns, in turn, generate...

...vulnerable communities, events relating to hazards interact with a variety of social, psychological, institutional and cultural processes in ways that can heighten or attenuate perceptions of risk and thereby shape risk behaviour. This is known as the 'social amplification' of risk. It implies that...

...aspects by combining hazardous events with psychological, social, institutional and cultural factors in ways that can heighten or attenuate perceptions of risk and shape risk behaviour.19 In doing so, the social amplification approach to risk gives an insight into the diversity...

...management. The concept of social amplification of risk Amplification as a metaphor for dynamic communication The concept of social amplification of risk is based on the thesis that a combination of the direct physical consequences of the event and the interaction of psychological,...

...openly debated in these multiple arenas. This is unfortunate, because research has concluded that issues "pertaining to hazards interact with psychological,...cultural processes in ways that can heighten or attenuate individual and social perceptions of risk and shape risk behavior"(Renn. Bums. Kasperson, Kasperson....

...understanding of the social processes that can mediate between a hazard event and its consequences. Events pertaining to hazards interact with psychological,...cultural processes in ways that can heighten or attenuate public perceptions of risk and shape risk behaviour. Behavioural patterns in turn generate secondary...

...risk assessment and management. A key thesis advanced by Kasperson and Kasperson is that risk events 'interact with psychological, social, institutional,...and cultural processes in ways that can heighten or dampen perceptions of risk and shape the risk behaviour of institutions, groups, and individual people'...