GEOG203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bungee Jumping, Risk Perception, Risk Management
10 Dec 2016
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Chapter 6 covers three approaches related to risk: risk perception, risk as culture, and political economy of risk. These approaches can be used to explore how people understand hazards in their environment. Hazard a thing, condition, or process that threatens individuals and society in terms of production (making a living) or reproduction (being alive). Hazards have both anthropogenic and natural causes and impacts: decisions as risk, risk the known (or estimated) probability that a hazard-related decision will have a negative consequence, gilbert f. white studied flooding on the mississippi river. The hazard is the danger, the risk is the probability that the danger will occur, and uncertainty is the degree to which we do not know whether that danger will occur. Biases are often based on affect, or emotion. They can make rare but spectacular events seem more risky than the common but statistically more dangerous events.
