Desired Risk: Broadening the Social Amplification of Risk Framework1
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Risk Analysis
- Vol. 10 (1) , 161-168
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1990.tb01030.x
Abstract
Recently Kaspersonet al.(6)have proposed a conceptual framework, “The Social Amplification of Risk,” as a beginning step in developing a comprehensive theory of public experience of risk. A central goal of their effort is to systematically link technical assessments of risk with the growing findings from social scientific research. A key and growing domain of public risk experience is “desired” risk, but this is virtually neglected in the framework. This paper evaluates the scope of the “Social Amplification of Risk Framework,” asking whether it is applicable to desired risks, such as risk recreation (hang gliding, mountain climbing, and so forth). The analysis is supportive of the framework's applicability to the domain of desired risk.Keywords
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