Siting a Hazardous Waste Facility: The Tangled Web of Risk Communication  

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Shortland, Michael ; Beder, Sharon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 1 no. 2 (Apr. 1992), page 139-160.
Fulltext: 139PUS12.pdf (1.16MB)

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In 1990. the Australian govemmcnt tned to alabhsh a naitonal hazardous waste mcincralor in rural Nm South Walrs. This paper considers thc debata over thc nsks associated uilh harardour uaslc incineration that emerged and thc s)mboliu portrayal of technolog) implicit in thev dchatn Risk communications associated wilh teshnologn convey a message aboul hou technolopcal systems are shaped. implemented and operated. In this case, govzmmcnt official\ ~uccumbcd 10 the temptation to employ an idcalirtio modcl of Icchnology in an atlcmpl to gain communrty acdcptancc for [he propoud incinrrdlor They depicted ~ncmcrator t.hnolupy as predictahle and controllahle. and wparahlr from thc socidl context Opponents reacted b) cmpluying a 'noru caw' model; ihc) represented mcmeratur technolog) is unrr.li.ahlc. unccil~in and unmnirollrble. Ncithcr side deliherately Id each put forward a VIN of technology that furthered 11, oun goals. The polariud psilions that rcruhed arc not uncommnn in iahnological cont~u~crsiec. and cn,ironmcnial group arc often branded as alsrmi\t on this account But there is wmc evidence In [his ;BSY ,tud) that mwagc\ of re.wurmce .also ooniniunicate mincerit) and leave pruponenls of a technolog) ndnerablr to having ihclr clams easily dconrtructed b) the opposition

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