Digitale Medien
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Risk analysis
9 (1989), S. 0
ISSN:
1539-6924
Quelle:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Thema:
Energietechnik
Notizen:
Risk communication is seen as an important adjunct to the process of siting locally noxious facilities. To understand how risk communication might function in such a process, one needs to understand the political context that gives rise to public opposition to such facilities in the first place. This analysis draws on a variety of data to describe the decline of deference, a situation in which a hostile and alienated public is mobilized primarily through ad hoc voluntary organizations, and is increasingly reluctant to defer important decisions to institutional elites. Risk communication programs must be designed to offset the trends that result in the decline of deference. This conclusion differs markedly from the conventional wisdom that risk communication is merely a device for providing information to citizens so sthat they may make more rational decisions.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1989.tb01265.x
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