Proposal for a Japan-U.S. Symposium on Risk Communication

2011年3月东日本大地震（GEJE）引发的海啸和福岛第一核电站安全系统故障对日本来说是灾难性的，并影响了全球的风险认知和政策。这种影响的性质仍然是社会科学研究的一个活跃领域。早期的研究结果表明，风险沟通和管理的不足导致了事件的社会放大。研讨会将提供一个及时的机会，综合新兴的社会和行为风险研究成果，这些极端事件，制定一个风险沟通和管理研究议程，以解决所确定的挑战，并为正在进行的国际风险沟通和减少灾害风险工作提供信息。迄今为止对日本东部大地震和福岛地震的性质和后果的研究-相关的风险通报确定了一系列广泛的促成因素，从缺乏科学共识和公众对风险的误解，到媒体对风险的社会放大，管理层缺乏透明度，以及公众参与不足。然而，缺乏一个overarchingsynthesis和评估的理论影响和由此产生的风险沟通研究问题，从这些事件产生的，并将推进相关的风险和决策科学。过去十年极端事件的影响有所增加，使全球更加关注减少灾害风险的必要性。国际社会为改善风险管理的证据基础所作的努力包括联合国国际减少灾害战略（减灾战略）、国际科学理事会（科联理事会）和国际社会科学理事会支持的灾害风险综合研究和减灾战略活动，包括在制定2015年后《兵库行动框架》方面发挥的牵头作用。风险解释和行动（RIA）是国际减灾研究所的一项重要活动，旨在了解决策者和普通公民如何在面临风险时单独和集体地做出决策，从而促进减少灾害风险的综合研究方法，最终减少全球灾害风险。拟议的研讨会推进了这一议程，以及将这项研究与极端技术风险的沟通和管理研究相结合，并加强了日本和美国之间的合作。社会、决策和风险科学。

The March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (GEJE), resulting tsunami, and Fukushima Dai-ichipower plant safety systems failures were catastrophic for Japan, and have influenced riskperceptions and policies globally. The nature of that influence remains an active area ofsocial scientific inquiry. Early findings suggest that risk communication and management inadequaciescontributed to the social amplification of events. The symposium will providea timely opportunity to synthesize emerging social and behavioral risk research findings regardingthese extreme events, develop a risk communication and management research agenda to addressthe challenges identified, and inform ongoing international risk communication and disasterrisk reduction efforts.Research to date on the nature and consequences of Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and Fukushima-related risk communications identifies a wide range of contributory factors, ranging from lack of scientific consensusand public misconceptions about the risks, to social amplification of risk by the media, lackof transparency by management, and insufficient public engagement. Nevertheless, an overarchingsynthesis and assessment of theoretical implications and resulting risk communication researchquestions stemming from these events is lacking, and would advance the related risk and decisionsciences. Extreme events of the last decade have increased in impact, heightening the global focus onthe necessity of disaster risk reduction. International efforts to improve the evidence basefor risk management include the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) supported by theUnited Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the International Councilfor Science (ICSU), and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNISDR activities,including its lead role in developing a post-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action. Risk Interpretationand Action (RIA) is a key activity of the IRDR, with the aim of understanding how people, bothdecision-makers and ordinary citizens, make decisions, individually and collectively, in theface of risk, and thereby contributing to an integrated research approach to disaster riskreduction, to ultimately decrease disaster risks worldwide. The proposed symposium advancesthis agenda, as well as integration of this research with research on the communication andmanagement of extreme technological risks, and enhances collaboration between Japan and theU.S. in the social, decision and risk sciences.