Social Risk Amplification Process in Korea: the Case of Mad Cow Disease in 2008

摘要：

The risk perception of Korean people against US beef plunged the newly elected Korean government into a deep crisis. From small nightly vigils on the internet, the protests swelled to hundreds of thousands, reaching a peak of one million nationwide. From this crisis we can learn following lessons. First, risks from unknown and unfamiliar system have a great potential to induce immense social consequences; second, the highly developed information technology can facilitate the social amplification of risk; third, for the risk management of ambiguity induced risk problem, it is needed to initiate societal discourse to enable participative decision making.

关键词： risk perception mad cow disease social amplification of risk

作者: Ji Bum Chung

作者单位: Korea Institute of Public Administration, Korea

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 2nd International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response(第二届风险分析与危机反应国际学术研讨会)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 674-680

在线出版日期: 2009-10-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）