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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 185-194出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(03)00042-6
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risk assessment; risk communication; acceptance; public opinion; social science; model-ecosystems
We investigated the significance of risk assessment studies in the public discussion on M emissions. Politicians and representatives from the public where interviewed by using the social-science technique of qualitative in-depth interviews. Three different types of attitudes towards natural science were found among politicians. Depending on which attitude a politician holds, risk assessment studies can have an impact on his/her readiness to support environmental policy measures. Regarding lay people, key factors affecting the acceptance of environmental policy measures are knowledge of environmental problems, their impacts on ecosystems or human health as well as direct personal perception of those impacts. Since direct perception is not always possible in everyday life, natural science experiments might be a means for successfully mediating this lacking perception. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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