A Conference to Explore Substantive and Methodological Issues Surrounding the Cross-Cultural Assessment of Environmental Risk

9414184 WILSON这个项目的中心是阿拉斯加土著和非土著人口对环境风险因素的感知差异。造成不同看法的因素包括文化、语言、经济结构以及对环境风险因素的衡量。通过各种观察技术——调查、存档数据和民族志——三角测量方法旨在提供丰富的背景分析。本提案将支持召开专家工作会议，探讨俄克拉何马州和阿拉斯加州的平行项目所提出的实质性和方法问题，这两个项目都是审查美洲土著对风险的看法。目前还没有明确定义的评估跨文化风险认知的方法。因此，该项目将为决策科学领域开辟具有重要意义的新天地，并为美国北极政策科学的发展做出贡献，无论是在国内还是在国际上。* * *

9414184 WILSON This project centers on the differences in the perception of environmental risk factors among Native and non-Native populations in Alaska. Among the factors which contribute to different perceptions are culture, language, economic structure as well as measures of environmental risk factors. Through various observational techniques--surveys, archived data and ethnography--a triangulation of methodologies is intended to provide a rich contextual analysis. The present proposal will support a working conference of experts to explore substantive and methodological issues raised by parallel projects in Oklahoma and Alaska, both of which examine risk perceptions by Native Americans. There presently exists no clearly defined methodology for asssessing cross-cultural risk perception. This project will thus break new ground of great significance for the field of decision science and contribute to the development of the policy sciences in the U.S. Arctic, nationally and internationally. ***