Highlights • Expert risk perceptions are socially-mediated, relational and incremental.• Challenges experts’ ‘real’ risk around which public perceptions are amplified.• Tree health risks characterised by uncertainty and conflicts about what is at risk.• Experts attribute concern to publics as they assemble risk judgments.• Risk managers deal with the ‘risk event’ alongside ‘the social construction of risk’.

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专家风险认知和风险的社会放大：入侵树木病虫害案例研究


亮点 • 专家的风险认知是社会介导的、相关的和渐进的。• 挑战专家的“真实”风险，公众的认知围绕该风险被放大。• 树木健康风险的特点是风险的不确定性和冲突。• 专家将公众的担忧归咎于公众当他们进行风险判断时。• 风险管理者在处理“风险事件”的同时也处理“风险的社会建构”。