| Title: |
Communicating Risks on Contaminated Land Sites: How Best to Engage with Local Residents (SUBR:IM Bulletin 6)
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| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> report
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
2007 |
| Availability: |
CL:AIRE Bulletin
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| Author 1/Producer: |
SUBR:IM Consortium
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Professional / trade / industry associations, institutes or networks
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| Publisher: |
CL:AIRE
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| Publisher City: |
Contaminated Land: Applications In Real Environments, London, W1H 7AL
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| ISBN: |
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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| Size: (e.g. 20mb) |
500
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Social
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Sustainable / green remediation
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| Short description: |
This bulletin describes important aspects of work on ‘Multi-level decision making
processes, expertise and sustainable urban regeneration’ undertaken by
researchers at the University of Sheffield as part of the SUBR:IM consortium.
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| Long description: |
The focus is on the attitude of local communities to land contamination and its
treatment. A combination of large-scale surveys of affected residents and case
studies of local policy management was carried out between 2004 and 2006 in
two local authorities; one in Thames Gateway (East London) and one in Greater
Manchester. The results were used to examine the social construction of risk and
risk communication in relation to contaminated sites. The importance of
transparent and democratic decision-making processes was confirmed. Such
approaches create local trust in the decisions that are made and reduce friction
in risk communication. The lay public gives much greater weight to open and
empathetic risk communication strategies than to those that emphasize
technical competence and objectivity. These findings should be of help to local
authorities and other public agencies in the design and implementation of policy
for contaminated land.
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Submitted By:
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Mr John Henstock WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 04/01/2008
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