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Environmental Impact Assessment, Technology Assessment, and Risk Analysis

Contributions from the Psychological and Decision Sciences

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Vincent T. Covello

    1. U.S. National Science Foundation, USA

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  2. Jeryl L. Mumpower

    1. State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA

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  3. Pieter J. M. Stallen

    1. Centre for Technology and Policy Studies, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

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  4. V. R. R. Uppuluri

    1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries G: (ASIG, volume 4)

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  3. Psychological Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Theoretical and Methodological Contributions

      1. The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
        • Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman
        Pages 107-129
      2. Rating the Risks: The Structure Of Expert And Lay Perceptions
        • Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein
        Pages 131-156
      3. Large-Scale Risk As a Problem Of Technological, Psychological and Political Judgment
        • Charles Vlek, Hans Kuyper, Henk Boer
        Pages 157-210
      4. Psychological Perspectives on Technology as Societal Option, Source of Hazard and Generator of Environmental Impacts
        • Kenneth H. Craik
        Pages 211-236
      5. Prediction, Diagnosis, and Causal Thinking in Forecasting
        • Hillel J. Einhorn, Robin M. Hogarth
        Pages 237-258
      6. Risk Judgment and the Communication of Hazard Information: Toward a New Look in the Study of Risk Perception
        • Timothy C. Earle, George Cvetovich
        Pages 259-312
      7. “Who’s Afraid of Technological Risk?”: An Attempt to Model Reasonable Emotions
        • P. J. M. Stallen
        Pages 313-323
      8. Psychological Aspects of Scenarios
        • Helmut Jungermann
        Pages 325-346

    3. Case Studies

      1. The Empirical Investigation of Citizens’ Preferences with Respect to Four Energy Scenarios
        • O. Renn, H. U. Stegelmann, G. Albrecht, U. Kotte
        Pages 349-402
      2. Attitude Studies by the IAEA/IIASA Risk Assessment Group
        • O. Renn, E. Swaton
        Pages 403-452
      3. Structure of Public Opinion, Nuclear Debate and Risk Assessment: A French Survey
        • E. Stemmelen, F. Fagnani, J. L. Brenot, J. P. Pages, J. Fagnani
        Pages 453-483
      4. Improving Scientists’ Judgments of Risk
        • Kenneth R. Hammond, Barry F. Anderson, Jeffrey Sutherland, Barbara Marvin
        Pages 485-514

  4. Decision and System Science Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 515-515
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About this book

This volume is the outcome of a recent NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Technology Assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment. and Risk Analysis: Contributions from the Psychological and Decision Sciences." The Institute was held in Les Arcs. France and functioned as a high level teaching activity during which scientific research results were presented in detail by eminent lecturers. Support for the Institute was provided by grants from the NATO Division of Scientific Affairs. the u.S. Office of Naval Research. and the Russell Sage Foundation. The Institute covered several areas of research. including quantitative studies on decision and judgmental processes. studies on human intellectual limitations. studies on risk attitudes and perceptions. studies on factors contributing to conflicts and disputes about hazardous technologies and activities. studies on factors influencing forecasts and judgments by experts. studies on public preferences for decisionmaking processes. studies on public responses to technological hazards. and case studies applying principles and methods from the psychological and decision sciences in specific settings.

Editors and Affiliations

  • U.S. National Science Foundation, USA

    Vincent T. Covello

  • State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA

    Jeryl L. Mumpower

  • Centre for Technology and Policy Studies, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

    Pieter J. M. Stallen

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

    V. R. R. Uppuluri

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environmental Impact Assessment, Technology Assessment, and Risk Analysis

  • Book Subtitle: Contributions from the Psychological and Decision Sciences

  • Editors: Vincent T. Covello, Jeryl L. Mumpower, Pieter J. M. Stallen, V. R. R. Uppuluri

  • Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries G:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70634-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-70636-3Published: 24 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-70634-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1256

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 1070

  • Topics: Environmental Health, Construction Management, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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