A Study of the Cognitive Structure of Environmental Risk in China

• In Event: Environmental Risks in Transnational Contexts I

Abstract

Environmental risk cognition is the perception and psychological feeling of various affections which brought about by the Human-caused environmental change. Research on environmental risk cognition will contribute to an effective management of environmental risk. This paper reveals the public cognitive status of environmental risk in China, as a representative of newly industrialized countries. We explore the structure of public environmental risk cognition in a certain historical period, helping to table a proposal for environmental risk governance in the new period of China.

Author

• chenggang zhang, School of social sciences,Tsinghua university,Beijing,China,100084