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

9414184威尔逊这个项目的中心在感知环境的差异 风险 因素分析 原生 和 阿拉斯加的非原住民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、存档数据和人种学-三角测量方法，旨在提供丰富的背景分析。本提案将支持召开一次专家工作会议，探讨在俄克拉荷马州和阿拉斯加开展的平行项目所提出的实质性问题和方法问题，这两个项目都研究美洲土著人的风险观念。 目前还没有明确定义的方法来评估跨文化的风险认知。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，并为美国北极地区政策科学的发展做出贡献。 ***

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. ***