Resilience at Risk: Epistemological and Social Construction Barriers to Risk Communication

This paper is about the persistent failure of social scientists to bring into the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process socially constructed environmental concerns held by potentially impacted communities. The failure to communicate perceived risks results from a two-communities divide based...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stoffle, Richard W., Minnis, Jessica
Other Authors: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Journal of Risk Research 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292434