Experience-based and Description-based Perceptions of Long-term Risk: Why Global Warming Does Not Scare Us (Yet)

A journal article on how the factors that influence one's perception of risk, such as recent personal experience or an event's probability, affect risk management decisions and how the abstract and delayed nature of climate change fails to elicit visceral reactions.

Date: 2006
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Authors: Elke Weber
Strategic Approach: Audiences, Framing, Other
Author: Elke Weber
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Strategic Approach: Audiences, Framing, Other

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