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Employee perspectives on risk management in a construction company Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Önder Ökmen, Martijn Leijten, Theodora Stratton, Marian Bosch-Rekveldt, Hans Bakker
In addition to the tools and techniques available, project risk management also depends on the attitudes of people in an organisation, how the available tools are used, and how the procedures are f...
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Assessing climate change scenarios in the Amazon Basin: a risk governance model Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nírvia Ravena, Norbert Fenzl, Rômulo Magalhães de Souza, Voyner Ravena Canẽte, Roberto Célio Limão de Oliveira, Cleyton Alves Candeira Pimentel
The impacts of climate change are becoming more severe and can only be addressed through governance that spans from local to global levels. To enhance adaptation and response strategies, we need to...
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Before amplification: the role of experts in the dynamics of the social attenuation and amplification of risk Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Lisbet Fjaeran, Kenneth Pettersen Gould, Rob Goble
In this article, we use system/network theory together with the social amplification of risk framework (SARF) to show how expert actors over time and across multiple events can contribute to social...
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The fish scales of justice: the influence of perceived justice on social license to operate for aquaculture development Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Laura N. Rickard, Mary Beth Deline, Nathan Smith
Cultivating seafood in water environments, global aquaculture production is on the rise. As the sector grows, however, so too do challenges in securing the necessary social license to operate (SLO)...
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All atwitter about climate change: do civil and informative Twitter debates influence support for climate policy? Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Lauren Lutzke, Caitlin Drummond Otten, Sanghamitra Sen, Joseph Árvai
This online experiment examined how participants (1,831 Twitter users in the U.S.) would perceive a conversation on Twitter between two politicians, a Democrat and a Republican, as they debate the ...
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Do knowledge, trust in source content, and magnitude of information influence COVID-19 risk perceptions? Comparing Ghanaian and US respondents Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Esi E. Thompson
Diverse outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic from different countries raise questions about how information related factors influence judgements about the risks of the outbreak. Adopting a comparati...
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Bibliometric analysis of vaccine hesitancy research from behavioural perspectives (2015–2022) Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Shruti Acharya, Thomas Aechtner, Sunil Venaik, Sanjay Dhir
Vaccine hesitancy has emerged as one of the top challenges to global health and has received increasing attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a descriptive bibliometric analysis of ...
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Terrorism-related worry in Sweden: the roles of gender and foreign background Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Saman Rashid
In 2017, Sweden experienced its first lethal first-hand terrorist attack. Although lethal terrorist attacks are regarded as rare, terrorism-related worry should be of substantial interest since pol...
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Message framing and trust as moderated mediating mechanisms for effective government response to uncertain risk messages Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Hye-Jin Paek, Thomas Hove
This study explores moderating and mediating mechanisms that determine the effectiveness of government responses to media messages about a risk. Focusing on the risk of radiation-contaminated water...
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Sliding scales for assessing and communicating human and ecological risks and complexities for restoration, remediation crises, and decisions Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Joanna Burger
Many lands were degraded or destroyed by human activities, including contamination from industry and military facilities. The United States and other industrialized counties have legacy wastes rema...
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How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices? Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Yolanda C. Lin, Asa B. Stone, Gareth Byatt, Lindsey Rotche
Managing risk from natural hazards and other types of critical risks is fundamental to the viability, sustainability, and resilience of organizations of all types and sizes. It is, crucially, an im...
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Growing utopia – undoing risk through self-sufficiency and urban gardening? Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Elin Montelius
This paper analyses how the utopia of self-sufficiency functions as a response to risk and uncertainty. Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of risk. Risk has become a way to understand ...
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Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Michelle SH Lim, Yang Miang Goh
Design-for-Safety (DfS) is a promising intervention to address safety and health risks in construction. At the same time, past research on construction safety and health consistently emphasized the...
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Risk communication and Covid-19 through the lens of anonymous sources Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Anita Kovačič Čelofiga, Tina Tomažič
The extent of the Covid-19 pandemic and the health, social and economic crisis it caused, brought additional burden to journalists, but also new power. At a time when the pandemic dominated the med...
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Eliciting risk preferences: is a single item enough? Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Don C. Zhang, Gino Howard, Russell A. Matthews, Tyler Cowley
Economists and psychologists frequently use single-item measures of risk preferences despite potential limitations in reliability and criterion validity compared to their multi-item counterparts. T...
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Systemic risks and solar climate engineering research. Integrating technology ethics into the governance of systemic risks Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Benjamin Hofbauer
The paper explores how the framework of systemic risks can help govern the risks imposed through solar climate engineering research. The central argument is that a systemic perspective of risk is a...
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I don’t know my child’s asthma risk: evidence against satisficing as an explanation for ‘don’t know’ responses Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Erika A. Waters, Gabrielle Pogge, Heather Orom, Marc T. Kiviniemi, Jennifer L. Hay, Malwina Lewicka, Natasha C. Allard, Gregory D. Webster, James A. Shepperd
Several studies suggest that ‘don’t know’ (DK) responses to risk perception items may represent meaningful expressions of uncertainty about disease risk. However, researchers are often discouraged ...
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When to dismiss an alternative hypothesis or theory? A risk and uncertainty perspective Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Terje Aven
In society, there is often an ‘official view’ – a mainstream account – and alternatives to this view are seen as representing a disturbance and hampering this view’s policy implementation. There is...
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Insufficiency and capacity: seeking and processing of risk information about PFAS Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Xinxia Dong, Janet Z. Yang
According to the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model, greater information insufficiency leads to more active information seeking and systematic processing, and these relationships ...
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Competing institutional logics in hospital management during the COVID-19 pandemic – lessons for the future Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Lars Erik Kjekshus
Hospitals had to adapt quickly when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in January 2020. This article analyses the organisation of the crisis management efforts of Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The a...
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Facing nonscalability: are risks still ‘risks’ when compound and catastrophic? Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Christine Fassert, Valérie November, Cassandre Rey-Thibault
Crisis intensification and acceleration (e.g. the triple disaster in Fukushima, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the increase in extreme climatic events) have raised new challenges. Recent research went ...
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COVID-19 risk perception measures: factoring and prediction of behavioral intentions and policy support Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Branden B. Johnson, Byungdoo Kim
Although early concepts of risk perception measures distinguished cognitive from affective items, until recently multi-dimensional taxonomies were absent from risk perception studies, and even more...
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Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Adam Mayer, Ellison Carter
Multiple municipalities in the U.S. have banned natural gas hook-ups in new home construction. Several state governments have pre-empted those bans. Yet little is known about public perceptions of ...
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Public perceptions of hydrogen hubs in Southwestern Pennsylvania Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Ioana Iacob, M. Granger Morgan
With the growing interest in hydrogen as an energy carrier and the federal-level investments in the development of hydrogen hubs in the United States, public perception and understanding of hydroge...
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Improving workplace safety through mindful organizing: participative safety self-efficacy as a mediational link between collective mindfulness and employees’ safety citizenship Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Matteo Curcuruto, Michelle Renecle, Francisco Gracia, James I. Morgan, Ines Tomas
Mindful organizing is a team-level capability that allows teams in high-risk environments to anticipate when something can potentially go wrong and adapt their operations just in time to protect th...
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Community flood resilience assessment of Saadi neighborhood, Shiraz, Iran Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Mousa Pazhuhan, Melika Amirzadeh
Flash floods have recently become a recurrent phenomenon with devastating impacts on different cities, particularly vulnerable communities in Iran. Community resilience is a relatively recent appro...
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PRisk-MM: a public sector risk management maturity model for Brazilian public organisations Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 A. L. F. De Lorena, A. P. C. S. Costa
This article proposes a risk management maturity model focused on the public sector and developed for Brazilian public organisations, the PRisk-MM. The PRisk-MM contains 5 levels of maturity and 23...
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E-privacy concerns: a facet theoretical approach Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Gisela Böhm, Hans-Rüdiger Pfister, Vanessa Ayres-Pereira, Ingvar Tjøstheim
Although the ubiquitous use of smartphones and social media poses serious risks to the privacy of users, research is sparse regarding how users perceive these risks. We present a study investigatin...
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Urban gardening as a risk-reduction strategy – an intersectional analysis of top-down gardening initiatives Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Emelie Larsson, Katarina Giritli Nygren
In cities around the world, urban gardening is increasingly used as a municipal strategy to tackle both environmental and social risks. In this study we draw on critical and intersectional studies ...
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Dread and unknown characteristics of particulate matter pollution: cognitive and affective routes to air pollution prevention Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Soo Jung Hong, Yungwook Kim
This study investigates the effect of dread and unknown risks on individuals’ cognitive and affective responses and decision-making related to particulate matter (PM) air pollution. In particular, ...
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Waste-to-energy risk perception typology: health, politics and environmental impacts Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Aiora Zabala, Daniel Groten, Laura Vozmediano, César San Juan, Jesús Ibarluzea
Where strategies to reduce and recycle urban solid waste are insufficient, waste incineration is proposed as second-best management. Waste-to-energy facilities often raise remarkable public controv...
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Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Harishankar Vasudevanallur Subramanian, Casey Canfield, Daniel B. Shank, Matthew Kinnison
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) decision support is increasing in high-stakes contexts, such as healthcare, defense, and finance. Uncertainty information may help users better leverage AI p...
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Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Rebekka Schwesig, Irina Brich, Jürgen Buder, Markus Huff, Nadia Said
Surveys worldwide show that the public perceives artificial intelligence (AI) as a double-edged sword: A risk and an opportunity. However, how this ambiguous perception of AI is related to people’s...
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How states deal with long-term destabilizing risks Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Bas Heerma van Voss, Ira Helsloot
Many risks of events with the potential to cause societal collapse either lie far in the future or have a low chance of materializing in any given year. However, optimal mitigation of these long-te...
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Foolproof: why we fall for misinformation and how to build immunity by Sander Van Der Linden book review Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Sarah Duckett, George Warren
Published in Journal of Risk Research (Vol. 26, No. 10, 2023)
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Reply to book review Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Sander van der Linden
Published in Journal of Risk Research (Vol. 26, No. 10, 2023)
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Risk in transit: a case study of the introduction of a new risk definition for risk management in the Norwegian petroleum industry Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Torgeir Kolstø Haavik, Trond Kongsvik, Marius Vigen
In 2015, a new risk definition was presented by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA-N) as a petroleum regulation update and ‘rolled out’ in the PSA-N organisation and the oil and gas indu...
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Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect? Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Zhuling Liu, Janet Z. Yang
Applying the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model, this study explores the antecedents to information seeking and information avoidance about a relatively novel risk – per- and poly...
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The influence of COVID-19 Mortality Rate Formats on Emotional Reactions, Risk perception, and self-protective Behavioral Intentions Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Giulia Priolo, Martina Vacondio, Stephan Dickert, Nicolao Bonini
We investigated whether different Mortality Rate Formats used to express the same objective probability affected people’s Emotional reactions, Risk perception, and protective behavioral intentions....
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Limits to inoculating against the risk of fake news: a replication study in Singapore during COVID-19 Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Catherine Mei Ling Wong, Yuanyuan Wu
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the problem of fake news as one of the defining challenges of our time. The sudden proliferation of fake news and its direct impact on public health and safety led t...
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Contrasting perspectives on the risks of intensive livestock farming in The Netherlands: a survey study Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 V. Eijrond, L. Claassen, D. Timmermans
In the Netherlands, intensive livestock farming is a recurrent topic of societal debate with stakeholders having quite different perspectives on the benefits and harms. In particular, stakeholders ...
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Ethos in COVID-19 crisis communication: evidence from Oman Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Fatema Al-Rubai’ey, Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi
There is little research on the effectiveness of the rhetorical strategies adopted by governments in COVID-19 crisis communication. This study aimed to answer the following two questions: (1) What ...
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What psychological factors lead to the abandonment of cultivated land by coastal farmers? An interpretation based on the psychological distance Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Xin Nie, Xingyi Wu, Han Wang, Qing Kang, Fengqin Li, Lihua Li, Hua Qiao
For a long time, the research on the cultivated land abandonment behavior of farmers, caused by natural constraints such as coastal ecological environment vulnerability and frequent extreme climate...
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Mapping mental models of parents’ risk perceptions of autonomous public transport use by young children: a social representations theory approach Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Shirley S. Ho, Wenqi Tan
Numerous countries are integrating autonomous vehicles into their public transport systems. Among the expected benefits of autonomous public transport, increased mobility for families with young ch...
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The global research trends on health risk perception and communication: a bibliometric study and visualization analysis Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Xia Cao, Binfang Yang, Jiansong Zhou
Background: It is meaningful that both scholars and practitioners recognize the multifaceted nature of health risk perception and communication (HRPC). Extensive studies related to HRPC have been c...
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Mixed and worried? Examining the association between locality type and worrying about social phenomena in Arab citizens of Israel Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Nohad Ali, Dennis Rosenberg
This study examined the association between the type of locality ethnic minorities reside in and their worrying about social phenomena through the lens of the social capital theory. The study aimed...
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Participatory versus analytic approaches for understanding risk perceptions: a comparison of three case studies from the field of biotechnology Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Leonie Dendler, Mariana Morais, Jan Nikolas Hargart, Joana S. Lourenço, Domagoj Vrbos, Paul Ortega, Kamila Sfugier Tollik, Georgios Alaveras, Barbara Gallani, Michelle Patel, Laura Broomfield, Ortwin Renn
Abstract Considering growing participatory turns in regulatory scientific risk analysis, this paper compares how social scientists use participatory and analytical methods to understand risk perceptions and meet competing demands for representativeness and inclusiveness. Drawing on case studies of how three European risk agencies use participatory and analytic methods in the context of biotechnology
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Americans’ COVID-19 risk perceptions and risk perception predictors changed over time Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Branden B. Johnson, Marcus Mayorga, Byungdoo Kim
Abstract Identifying and understanding risk perceptions—“how bad are the harms” to humans or to what they value that people see as potentially or actually arising from entities or events—has been critical for risk analysis, both for its own sake, and for expected associations between risk perceptions and subsequent outcomes, such as risky or protective behavior, or support for hazard management policies
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The measurements and performance of enterprise risk management: a comprehensive literature review Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Sylvester Senyo Horvey, Jones Odei-Mensah
Abstract Global economic crises and complexities in the business environment have flawed the traditional risk management system. These have provided lessons to business leaders and enhanced the popularity of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). ERM is the holistic approach to managing the overall risks of an organisation to achieve its strategic goals. Despite its relevance, the question about the appropriate
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Institutional trust, risk and product safety: a consumer survey Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Zoe Adams, Magda Osman
Abstract This study aims to expand our understanding of institutional trust by examining how consumers express their trust in a UK product safety regulator, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS). It uses publicly available data from two waves of nationally representative surveys (N = 20,526) conducted by OPSS between November 2020 and August 2021. Questions were selected for analysis if
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Mechanisms behind COVID-19 scepticism among socially marginalised individuals in Europe Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Kristi Nero, Kati Orru, Tor-Olav Nævestad, Alexandra Olson, Merja Airola, Lucia Savadori, Austeja Kazemekaityte, Gabriella Lovasz, Jelena Kajganovic
Abstract Homeless and materially disadvantaged people are considered particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. So far, there is no systematic knowledge about how the homeless and materially disadvantaged people perceive the risks of COVID-19 and what factors influence the development of sceptical views and underestimation of dangers posed by the virus. The aim of our study is therefore to: (1)
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Making cyber security more resilient: adding social considerations to technological fixes Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Christine Eriksen, Benjamin Scharte
Abstract How can a focus on socio-technical vulnerability and uncertainty make cyber security more resilient? In this article, we provide a conceptual discussion of how to increase cyber resilience. First, we show how cyber security and resilience thinking co-evolved through their connection to critical infrastructures, and how the ensuing dominant technical focus inevitably always falls short due
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Lost in translation: inadequate non-technical risk assessment within major project teams in mining Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Jocelyn Fraser, Livia Mello, Nadja C. Kunz
Abstract Infrastructure projects increasingly encounter delays due to non-technical risks (NTR), those risks arising from interactions between business and external stakeholders with the potential to create future negative impacts on society and the environment. One sector where NTR is having a significant adverse impact is the global mining sector, where industry leaders rank NTRs as the leading cause
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Risk perception of the COVID-19 vaccines: revisiting the psychometric paradigm Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Jody Chin Sing Wong, Janet Zheng Yang
Abstract Americans’ concerns about the risks of vaccination are rising in recent years. In the original piece that explicated the psychometric paradigm, vaccinations were rated as less dreaded and less unknown. However, in 2016, vaccinations were more dreaded and more unknown in the public eye. A national survey (N = 1025) conducted in August 2021 reflects this trend in risk perception of the COVID-19
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Risk analysis versus risk governance: the case study of the Ebola Virus Disease Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Temitope Tunbi Onifade
Abstract Risk notions mostly espoused by the world risk society and securitization theories have influenced the two major risk handling methods: risk analysis and risk governance. Engaging the risk notions, some scholars and policy makers have identified risk governance as superior to risk analysis. Risk analysis, considered the classical method, has technical parameters, leaving out important societal
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Characterizations of COVID-19 risk: review and suggestions for improvement of current practices Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Ingrid Glette-Iversen, Azadeh Seif, Terje Aven
Abstract To handle the risks related to coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease, governments worldwide have adopted different policies and strategies. These policies and strategies build on various approaches and methods to assess and convey the risks. This paper looks more closely into these approaches and methods. We review and discuss practices in four countries (Norway, the UK, the US and Sweden)
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Digital methods of social science in food regulation: case studies from the Food Standards Agency Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Beth Armstrong, Darren Bhattachary, Alex Bogdan, Caitlin Connors, Laura Broomfield, Joanna Disson, Rebecca Gillespie, Helen Heard, Alice John, Lucy King, Marfot Miah, Ely Mirzahosseinkhan, Michelle Patel, Alice Rayner, Sophie Watson
Abstract The use of digital methods in social research has increased significantly, offering some benefits over traditional research methods, and some new challenges. The UK Food Standards Agency’s social science provides several case studies of how digital methods can be effectively utilized in practice. The agency has adopted various digital methods including web push surveys, online panels, online
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Unmuting leadership: the impact of Zelensky’s social media strategy at the inset of the Ukrainian War Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Sebastián Sánchez-Castillo, Esteban Galán-Cubillo, Lindsey Drylie-Carey
Abstract Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, President Zelensky has used his social networks to request international support. This research analyzes the audiovisual discourse of the hegemonic networks during the first 40 days of the humanitarian war crisis in the context of risk communication. The contribution of this research relates to the unveiling of a new era where social
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Summary of the ONE SOCIETY track > opportunities and challenges Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Lynn Frewer, Max Blanck, Stephan Bronzwaer, Laura Martino, Domagoj Vrbos, Yann Devos
Abstract This report summarises the main discussions, conclusions and recommendations of the ‘One Society’ track of the ‘ONE – Health, Environment & Society – Conference 2022’ (21st–24th June 2002; Brussels and online), which was organised by the European Food Safety Authority. The four themes in the One Society track focused on risk communication, social science, engagement, including collaboration
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Societal insights in risk communication planning – a structured approach Journal of Risk Research (IF 5.346) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Domagoj Vrbos, Giorgia Zamariola, Laura Maxim, Giulia Nicolini, Paul Ortega, James Ramsay, Matthias Rasche, Claire Rogers, Luca Schombert, Anthony Smith, Barbara Gallani
Abstract The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) receives hundreds of requests for scientific risk assessments each year and publishes on average over 500 scientific outputs annually. To optimise the planning for its risk communications, the authors developed a two-phase approach for assessing incoming requests that follows the first two stages of the IRGC’s Risk Governance Framework―Pre-Assessment