There are many approaches to analyzing risk based decisionmaking.
For the purpose of this study, risk management decisionmaking
and communication are a process of identifying perceptions
of risks associated with a specific domain (i.e. fresh produce
food safety), perceptions of sources of risk, perceptions of the elements
of risk held by actors engaged in the domain (e.g. farmers,
food safety experts, scientists, policy-makers, and regulators), and
the decision-making and appropriate responses to risk. Using risk
judgement and decision-making as an approach to a complex
problem like food safety identifies risks based on specific characteristics
and circumstances of the events and processes involved,
informs solutions based on the degree of severity of potential
outcomes, and may include a cost-benefit analysis or other metric
or combination of metrics (Fischoff et al., 1997; Morgan et al., 2002;
Finnoff et al., 2006).