Environmental Risk Perception after Chernobyl

Abstract

Personal life experience is not sufficient for an adequate environmental risk evaluation. People cannot understand environmental danger without having necessary information. Once established, however, environmental awareness has a direct influence on people's evaluations and, consequently, on their lifestyles (Sjoberg, 1996).

Citation

Zykova, I.A. (2007), "Environmental Risk Perception after Chernobyl", Edelstein, M.R., Tysiachniouk, M. and Smirnova, L.V. (Ed.) Cultures of Contamination (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-1152(06)14010-7