LOW DOSE RISK, DECISIONS, & RISK COMMUNICATION
The objective of this project is to conduct basic research on how people receive, evaluate, and form positions on scientific information and its relationship to low-dose radiation exposure. There are three major areas of study in our research program. First is the development of theories, frameworks and concepts essential to guiding data collection and analysis. The second area is a program of experimental studies on risk perception, evaluation of science information, and the structure of individual positions regarding low-dose exposures. Third is the community-level studies to examine and record how the social conditions, under which science communications take place, influence the development of attitudes and opinions about: low-dose exposures, the available management options, control of radiation risks, and preferences for program and policy goals.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG07-99ER62879
- OSTI ID:
- 833469
- Report Number(s):
- EMSP-69904-2002; R&D Project: EMSP 69904; TRN: US0406696
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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