Committee on Risk Perception and Communication

该奖项将为国家科学院风险感知和沟通委员会提供部分支持，以研究和开发一份报告，分析和评估改善与技术相关的风险沟通过程的方法，以及提高公众对相关政策问题的理解。这项研究的结论和建议将有助于提高公众对技术风险的了解和适当的应对措施，并将帮助政府内外的决策者作为这一进程的其他参与者预测问题并制定适当的应对措施。这些结果将使政策制定者能够提高新计划的绩效、公众理解和成本效益。

This award will provide partial support to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Risk Perception and Communication to research and develop a report that would analyze and evaluate approaches for improving the process of communicating about risk associated with technologies, and for improving public understanding about related policy questions. The study's conclusions and recommendations will help improve public understanding of technological hazards and appropriate responses to them, and will assist decision-makers within and outside the government as other participants in the process to anticipate problems and develop adequate responses to them. These results should enable policy makers to improve the performance, public understanding, and cost-effectiveness of new programs.