Framing Choices

  • Identity Frames: Address the question, "Who am I?"
  • Characterization Frames: Address the question, "Who are they?"
  • Gain/Loss Frames: Address how individuals assess the potential loss and gain characterizing key decisions in policy situations
  • Risk Frames: Address perceived risk associated with environmental policies and options
  • Views of Nature Frames: Address how individuals perceive the effect of human interaction on the environment
  • Fact Frames: Address how individuals relate to and process relevant facts in the policy dispute and address the extent to which people trust factual information
  • Conflict Management (or Process) Frames: Address how individuals relate to various policy or conflict resolution alternatives

 

 

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