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Risk communication has become a central feature of public policy for dealing with health, safety, and environmental hazards in the United States and the European Community (EC). New laws in both industrial societies now establish an extensive set of risk communication duties for government and industry, and provide the public with various rights of access to risk information held by private firms and public agencies.
This paper is based on research supported by the European Community Research Center and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Baram, M. (1989). Risk Communication: Moving from Theory to Law to Practice. In: Covello, V.T., McCallum, D.B., Pavlova, M.T. (eds) Effective Risk Communication. Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1569-8_5
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