Perceived ecological risks to water environments from selected forest industry activities

Forest Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 344-356

  Cavanagh, Nigel ^a   McDaniels, Timothy ^a   Axelrod, Lawrence ^b   Slovic, Paul ^c  

^a Inst of Resources and Environment   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological risk perception; Expert judgments; Lay perceptions; Policy issues; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033857608     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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