Comments on: Melissa Finucane on the perception of environmental risks among Pacific Islanders

By: barnet

barnet — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:02:17 +0000

I totally agree the community members should integrate their power to fight against natural disasters. However, this could be hardly possible in today’s society where people mostly act out of self-interests.

By: BPosh

BPosh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:09:00 +0000

You're very welcome. Thank you for the effort and dedication you bring to it … It is my hope that it would catch on on the “mainlands” as well. It seems to me to be an approach that might also be helpful for my fellow “mainlanders” to be better able to get a handle on the kind of risk implications are there for doing so little to support efforts to deal with Climate Change … A recent poll found the numbers growing (to about 48% now) who think scientists predictions of the severity & consequences of Global Warming to be exaggerated …

By: melissafinucane

melissafinucane — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:11:28 +0000

Telling stories (the narrative approach) certainly has advantages. You can embed both technical and experiential information. You can help people integrate qualitatively different elements of a decision problem. And you can build in cultural references. So it helps a lot in risk communication and risk management efforts. But like most things, the narrative form is not a panacea. We need to figure out when it is most appropriate and what constitutes engaging but not manipulative narration. We must somehow learn to balance the value of narrative with the recognition that narrative might have its own limitations. Considerable work is still needed to ensure the most fitting application of this approach. Thanks for your interest in this work.

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:38:40 +0000

Thank you!

By: Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:37:36 +0000

Thanks Qudratullah!

By: Qudratullah Khan

Qudratullah Khan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:17:28 +0000

Another great change to the face of the web page.

By: Qudratullah Khan

Qudratullah Khan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:15:52 +0000

I read about the dangers of CO2 dropping to the oceans.Probably water plants need it like the earthly ones.

By: BPosh

BPosh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:22:16 +0000

I thought it was interesting that Melissa's recommendation that narratives and stories be used in communicating important information is so consistent with how Jesus shared his message with the people of his day – a message which has successfully spread around the world and been passed on down to this day … ( I think she may have something there …)