Response to Risk in a Global Context

July 6, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, School of Architecture Auditorium

Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture: Response to Risk in a Global Context, with Melissa L. Finucane.

As a global society we are faced with environmental and health risks that come with different views about how to best manage them. How do people decide what is an acceptable risk? Why are there often gaps between technical experts and community members on how to respond? What do cultural evaluations of risk tell us that technical estimates miss? What tools are most effective for assessing, communicating about, and managing risk? This lecture examines the psychological and socio-cultural factors that influence risk decision processes and outcomes, and the implications for policy making in Asia-Pacific.

MELISSA FINUCANE is a senior fellow at the East-West Center. She is the lead principal investigator for the NOAA-funded Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program which supports regional efforts towards climate risk management for the Pacific Islands. She is co-principal investigator on an NSF-funded project examining coupled natural-human systems and emerging infectious diseases in Vietnam. She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

Sakamaki Extraordinary Lectures 2011 support Outreach College's summer theme, ADVANCING ASIA-PACIFIC, and provide an enriching public forum for viewpoints and discussion prior to Hawai‘i's hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.


Ticket Information
FREE

Event Sponsor
Outreach College, Mānoa Campus

More Information
956-3411, http://www.outreach.hawaii.edu/summer

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