Abstract from 1995 SRA Annual Meeting Abstract of Meeting Paper Society for Risk Analysis 1995 Annual Meeting Characterizing Perceptions of Ecological Risk. This paper attempts to characterize perceived ecological risk, using the psychometric paradigm developed in the domain of human health risk perception.
Factor analyses show that four or five factors characterize the judgment data.
The factor results correspond with initial expectations and provide a plausible characterization of judgments regarding ecological risk. Some comparisons of responses for selected items are presented, including responses for perceptions of various issues related to global change processes. Implications for risk communication and other research efforts are discussed.