Åsa Boholm

TL;DR: The authors reviewed a number of cross-national studies of perceptions of risks which have been conducted in accordance with the "psychometric paradigm" developed by the Oregon research group in the 1970s.

TL;DR: The authors argued that if we are to succeed in investigating risk contextually, without ending up in a relativistic muddle which merely acknowledges myriads of diverse risk perceptions, it is necessary to problematize the assumed simplistic cultural nature of risk.

TL;DR: The relational theory of risk as mentioned in this paper is a theory about the interpretative nature of risk that answers the key theoretical and practical questions of why and how something is considered a risk, and suggests new ways to approach risk communication, risk governance, and risk management by taking into account bounded rationalities of thought and action.

TL;DR: In this paper, cultural theory is used to explain universal bias by way of a general typology of group formation and a concomitant cosmology or world view, and the study of hazards as culturally construed phenomena.

TL;DR: In contrast to generic and formal risk governance models such as the IRGC framework, the authors advocates the relevance of a contextual and practice-based approach to organizational risk governance, arguing that risk governance takes place in contexts that are historically, spatially and institutionally situated.