著者

西澤 真理子

出版者

THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS, JAPAN

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.2, pp.2_21-2_32, 2009 (Released:2012-03-09)

参考文献数

44

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Media reporting often influences how people perceive risks.Using a content analysis as a method, this paper attempts to investigate acorrelation between newspaper reporting about BSE (bovine spongiformencephalopathy) and risk perception of Japanese consumers about the safety of beef.

著者

三島 和子

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.1, pp.59-68, 2010 (Released:2011-11-01)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

3

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According to our study of “Public Risk Cognition of Pandemic Flu and Risk Communication” conducted in November 2008, we found that it's extremely important to understand how people recognize Pandemic Flu(H5N1 type) and which way of risk communication is required. As novel H1N1 flu(Swine flu) virus caused outbreaks in April 2009, it was proven that Japanese government's risk and crisis management response and risk communication strategy didn't work well. Fortunately H1N1 flu virus was as severe as seasonal influenza. However, learning from this time's H1N1 pandemic, we've found it urgent to consolidate Japanese government's risk communication strategy for the event of a second wave of H1N1 and prospective outbreaks of highly-virulent H5N1. Our study should give much valuable suggestions to planning of the strategy.

著者

Michio MURAKAMI Takashi NAGAI Michiaki KAI

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

リスク学研究 (ISSN:24358428)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.R-22-008, (Released:2022-11-16)

参考文献数

76

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Risk analysis approaches involving risk assessment, management, and communication have been developed independently in radiological protection, food safety, and environmental sciences. Summarizing the commonalities and differences in risk analysis methodologies in these fields may contribute to updating future risk analysis. Therefore, this review summarizes the multifaceted perspectives of risk assessment, management, and communication, with actual application examples, by introducing the birth of risk concepts and various risk indicators, and the historical development of risk management and assessment. Particularly, reviewing the relationship of socio-psychological aspects, the importance of ethical and normative perspectives, and the role of dialog with stakeholders is helpful. Based on these reviews, we note that understanding and applying risk indicators across fields is necessary in comparing different types of risk events. Furthermore, we mention that the application of risk assessment that considers egalitarianism and maximin principles will become more important in the future when emphasizing the consideration of ethical and normative perspectives in accordance with the social context and needs from the field. We then discuss the challenges and the need to update the risk analysis for planning and crisis management. We argue that incorporating collaboration with stakeholders can lead to ethically and socially acceptable risk assessment, management and communication.

著者

小杉 素子 土屋 智子 谷口 武俊

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, no.2, pp.115-123, 2011 (Released:2012-01-22)

参考文献数

19

被引用文献数

1

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It is important to infer and respect others' values and attitudes for fruitful communication. This paper examines how experts and lay people infer others' risk perception. According to the 2009 questionnaire survey for academic professionals and the general public, professionals estimate that there is a larger difference in risk perception of the technology that they study between themselves and lay people than the general public does. The professionals who hold this feeling perceive the risk of technology as being lower and estimate lay people' s risk perception to be higher. They also focus on positive more than negative aspects of the technology, evaluate its benefits, and tend to presume that negative media coverage greatly affects public perception.

著者

森澤 眞輔

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.2, pp.115-123, 2010 (Released:2010-11-19)

参考文献数

11

被引用文献数

1

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The health risk due to the exposure to hazardous chemicals in the environment has been traditionally evaluated mainly based on the dose-response relationship determined for human, including the relationship of test animals with appropriate safety factor. However our daily life faces to so many varieties of hazardous chemicals that have not enough toxicity information for health risk evaluation. Here, a new challenge for health risk evaluation framework is proposed to reinforce the traditional framework with the sequential three models: (1) the PBPK model to convert the external exposure dose of chemicals into the internal dose in the target organ/tissue, (2) the dose-response relationship determined at cellular level of the target organ/tissue, and (3) the adverse effect-developing model to convert the change in cellular level into the somatic health risk, e. g., a mathematical cancer model. The expected contribution and utilities of the new framework are also discussed together with the modified framework to use the radiation equivalent dose of chemicals. The new framework, combined with the traditional, is highly expected as an effective and comprehensive health risk evaluation framework especially for new hazardous chemicals in our living environment.

著者

土田 昭司 木下 冨雄 中谷内 一也 田中 豊

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.2, pp.2_45-2_55, 2009 (Released:2012-03-09)

参考文献数

11

著者

斎藤 育江 大貫 文 戸高 恵美子 中岡 宏子 森 千里 保坂 三継 小縣 昭夫

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, no.2, pp.91-100, 2011 (Released:2012-01-22)

参考文献数

36

被引用文献数

5

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In the 1990s, the so-called ‘sick house syndrome’ became an area of public concern. Consequently, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan established Indoor Air Guidelines for 13 compounds as a preventive measure against sick house syndrome. In recent years, lower concentrations of the 13 chemicals in newly built houses diminished the health risk from those chemicals. As a result, instead of the regulated chemicals, unregulated chemicals such as methylcyclohexane, dichloromethane and acetone became common in building materials. These chemicals have also been found to cause sick house syndrome. Thus, in addition to the regulation of individual chemicals, it is now believed that it is necessary to minimize the total amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in order to diminish the health risk from indoor air chemicals.

著者

木下 冨雄

出版者

THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS, JAPAN

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.3, pp.3_3-3_24, 2009 (Released:2011-11-01)

参考文献数

113

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The forms of risk communication in Japan changed drastically after the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. While the pre-Earthquake risk related information was based on the myth of zero-risk, the post-Earthquake risk communication has required a much higher level of fair and open information, which is now the main current of this field. At the same time, other theoretical and practical problems have recently been founded. Those problems include (1)the philosophy and value system underlying risk communication, (2)the causal relation between risk communication and credibility, (3)whether the citizen really want risk information or not, (4) whether citizen's risk perception is emotional or not, (5)the organizational climate as a factor in successful risk communication, (6)misunderstanding of the meaning of precautionary principle, (7)the skill of the risk communicator, (8)the importance of wording and logic in risk communication, (9)how to construct good relations between risk agent and mass media , etc. The purpose of this paper is to integrate the notion of risk communication with the macro view in both time and space, which used to be based on the idea of a one-shot and local solution to future disasters.

著者

齊藤 修

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.2, pp.97-106, 2010 (Released:2010-11-19)

参考文献数

34

被引用文献数

1

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Risk management involves analyzing various risks and their tradeoffs to balance social, economic, and environmental objectives. This article reviews the research history and core terms of risk tradeoffs. It also explores the nature of risk tradeoffs in the context of interlinkage research, and proposes a typology of risk tradeoffs and conceptual framework for risk tradeoff analysis.

著者

田村 祐一郎

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.4, pp.4_1-4_2, 2009 (Released:2011-11-01)

著者

田中 極子

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, no.3, pp.195-202, 2011 (Released:2012-03-27)

参考文献数

17

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The H1N1 influenza pandemic and the foot-and-mouth epidemics, which both caused worldwide panic and economic disruption, are examples of infectious diseases that do not only directly harm human health, but also bring about social and economic turmoil. Given the possibility of such biological agents being used in acts of bio-terrorism, providing counter-measures against such threats in order to minimize social and economic damage is a major challenge for the modern world in creating an environment in which one can live without fear. Dealing with this challenge requires a full-scale global approach comprising all relevant actors not only in the public health sector, but also the public and private sectors of animal and plant epidemiology, security, law enforcement, as well as academia and industry. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is also envisaged to play a role in countering biological threats. This article is to consider the ways to strengthen the effectiveness of the BWC with a view towards the coming 7th Review Conference of the BWC in December this year.

著者

近本 一彦

出版者

The Society for Risk Analysis, Japan

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.2, pp.93-96, 2010 (Released:2010-11-19)

著者

緒方 裕光

出版者

THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS, JAPAN

雑誌

日本リスク研究学会誌 (ISSN:09155465)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.2, pp.2_3-2_9, 2009 (Released:2012-03-09)

参考文献数

16

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We need to describe or deal with uncertainty in risk analysis because risk inherently involves chance or probability. There have been many discussions to define uncertainty in risk analysis. However, different types of uncertainty appear in risk analysis in different ways. Some of them are quantifiable by probabilities, some are not. The appropriate method to characterize the uncertainty, which can be caused by incomplete knowledge or stochastic variability, depends on the kind of its source. The most important result of considering uncertainties in risk analysis is an insight that its consideration gives to the risk assessor. This review presents the basic concepts to deal with uncertainty in risk analysis.