Understanding socioeconomic aspects of risk perception: Progress report, FY-1987: Working draft (open access)

Understanding socioeconomic aspects of risk perception: Progress report, FY-1987: Working draft

This report summarizes progress to date in understanding the issue of risk perception and its implications for the suitability of the Hanford Site in eastern Washington as a location for an underground radioactive waste repository. It presents some observations about the causes, consequences and processes of risk perception gained from a review of the professional literature. It also contains an extensive working bibliography of useful reference materials, and a compilation of abstracts from selected articles that are felt to be of particular relevance to the BWIP licensing and institutional support efforts. 293 refs.
Date: November 1, 1987
Creator: Liebow, E. B.; Fawcett-Long, J. A. & Terrill, E. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library