Overview: .Cross-Cultural Risk Perception. demonstrates the richnessand wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that riskperception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, andinterested parties. The book begins with an extended introductionsummarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and coreissues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the bookconsists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towardsrisk in different countries, including the United States, Australia,New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, an
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