Engaging with comparative risk appraisals: Public views on policy priorities for environmental risk governance

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dc.contributor.authorRocks, Sophie A.
dc.contributor.authorSchubert, Iljana
dc.contributor.authorSoane, Emma
dc.contributor.authorBlack, Edgar
dc.contributor.authorMuckle, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorPetts, Judith
dc.contributor.authorPrpich, George
dc.contributor.authorPollard, Simon J. T.
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-10T09:59:35Z
dc.date.available2017-03-10T09:59:35Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractCommunicating the rationale for allocating resources to manage policy priorities and their risks is challenging. Here, we demonstrate that environmental risks have diverse attributes and locales in their effects that may drive disproportionate responses among citizens. When 2,065 survey participants deployed summary information and their own understanding to assess 12 policy-level environmental risks singularly, their assessment differed from a prior expert assessment. However, participants provided rankings similar to those of experts when these same 12 risks were considered as a group, allowing comparison between the different risks. Following this, when individuals were shown the prior expert assessment of this portfolio, they expressed a moderate level of confidence with the combined expert analysis. These are important findings for the comprehension of policy risks that may be subject to augmentation by climate change, their representation alongside other threats within national risk assessments, and interpretations of agency for public risk management by citizens and others.
dc.identifier.citationRocks SA, Schubert I, Soane E, et al., (2017) Engaging with comparative risk appraisals: Public views on policy priorities for environmental risk governance. Risk Analysis, Volume 37, Issue 9, September 2017, pp. 1683-1692en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0272-4332
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11593
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.12735
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherWileyen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleEngaging with comparative risk appraisals: Public views on policy priorities for environmental risk governanceen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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