Abstract
People respond to the hazards they perceive. If their perceptions are faulty, efforts at public and environmental protection are likely to be misdirected. In order to improve hazard management, a risk assessment industry has developed over the last decade which combines the efforts of physical, biological, and social scientists in an attempt to identify hazards and measure the frequency and magnitude of their consequences.**
This paper appeared in Societal Risk Assessment, How Safe is Safe Enough?, R. Schwing & W. Albers, Jr., (Eds.) Plenum Press, NY, 1980.
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Slovic, P., Fischhoff, B., Lichtenstein, S. (1981). Rating the Risks. In: Haimes, Y.Y. (eds) Risk/Benefit Analysis in Water Resources Planning and Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2168-0_17
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