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Desired Risk: Broadening the Social Amplification of Risk Framework 1
Author(s) -
Machlis Gary E.,
Rosa Eugene A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1990.tb01030.x
Subject(s) - recreation , risk management framework , risk analysis (engineering) , scope (computer science) , risk assessment , domain (mathematical analysis) , key (lock) , it risk , public domain , social risk , conceptual framework , risk management , climbing , factor analysis of information risk , business , computer science , it risk management , engineering , political science , computer security , sociology , finance , risk management information systems , geography , social science , mathematics , law , mathematical analysis , archaeology , structural engineering , information system , programming language , management information systems , electrical engineering
Recently Kasperson et 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.