Communicating to the public: Using risk comparisons

Abstract The use of risk assessment by the federal government to support environmental decision‐making has placed the responsibility of communicating with stakeholders, including the public, upon these agencies. In 1987, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, William Ruckelshaus, noted that the question is not whether to involve the public in decisions about risk, but how. Since that time, risk communication has become a formal part of the federal government's process of risk assessment, risk management and risk communication.

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