Risk Communication, Public Engagement, and Climate Change: A Role for Emotions

Risk Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1033-1040

  Roeser, Sabine ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Communication; Emotion; ethics; risk

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; EMOTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ETHICS; POLITICAL DECISION; PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT; RISK COMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; RISK PERCEPTION; RISKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS; LIFESTYLE; PHILOSOPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFESTYLE; MORALITY; POLICY; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; ETHICS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORALS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK;

EID: 84862592625     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01812.x     Document Type: Article

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