2014 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 31-39
In this paper, I offered an interpretation of the importance of the acquisition of risk literacy for the public. First, previous studies about risk literacy and definitions were reviewed, and then a definition of risk literacy was presented for the present article. Next, characteristics of risk perception among the public and the concepts of paradox of risk perception and trade-off thinking were explained. The importance of understanding these characteristics and concepts and thinking about risk based on them was stated. Then, I referred to the important role that education (specifically in schools) should play in the acquisition of risk literacy.
