The significance of crisis and risk communication / Robert L. Heath and H. Dan O'Hair -- Historical trends of risk and crisis communication / Michael J. Palenchar -- Cultural theory and risk / James Tansey and Steve Rayner -- Risk communication: insights and requirements for designing successful...

The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication explores the scope and purpose of risk, and its counterpart, crisis, to facilitate the understanding of these issues from conceptual and strategic perspectives. Recognizing that risk is a central feature of our daily lives, found in relationships,...

Describing a rhetorical approach to crisis communication, this text reviews rhetorical perspective on organizational crisis, raising questions and provoking issues. It aims to add depth and a breadth of understanding to the analysis of the rhetorical implications of a crisis