Center for Research in Wind, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.
Ram Power Consultancy, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Risk Anal. 2022 Jul;42(7):1423-1439. doi: 10.1111/risa.13902. Epub 2022 Mar 28.
The social amplification of risk framework (SARF) was developed to help comprehend how emerging contributions about the psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of risk could work in unison to impact decision making about risk. The framework proposed that risks are amplified or attenuated by interested parties employing different rhetorical strategies to give information about risk a certain "spin." The original literature identified four "attributes of information." However, despite the longevity of the framework, these have not been explicated in detail. Here we add depth and clarity by examining how amplification stations send risk signals that amplify or attenuate risk by emphasizing these different attributes of information. Drawing on a wealth of qualitative data from two case studies of offshore wind turbine siting off the coasts of Maryland and Delaware and guided by an extensive literature review, we reveal the strategies interested parties are using to influence siting decisions and risk management. The paper explores the usefulness of SARF in organizing qualitative information and sharpening insights on participatory risk governance and the nuances of public responses to a relatively new low-carbon technology. The authors conclude that the framework is valuable for analyzing stakeholder information while also recognizing limitations that may be addressed with some targeted future research.
风险的社会放大框架（SARF）旨在帮助理解新兴的关于风险的心理、社会和文化维度的贡献如何协同作用，影响风险决策。该框架提出，利益相关方通过采用不同的修辞策略来“扭曲”风险信息，从而放大或削弱风险。原始文献确定了四个“信息属性”。然而，尽管该框架存在已久，但这些属性并未详细说明。在这里，我们通过研究放大站如何通过强调这些不同的信息属性来发送放大或削弱风险的风险信号，为其增添了深度和清晰度。本研究借鉴了马里兰州和特拉华州沿海地区海上风力涡轮机选址的两个案例研究中的大量定性数据，并结合广泛的文献综述，揭示了利益相关方正在使用的策略，以影响选址决策和风险管理。本文探讨了 SARF 在组织定性信息、深化参与式风险治理见解以及公众对相对较新的低碳技术的反应细微差别方面的有用性。作者得出结论，该框架对于分析利益相关者信息很有价值，但同时也认识到可能需要一些有针对性的未来研究来解决其局限性。
