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Articles 1 - 8 of 8
Full-Text Articles in Sociology
Contesting Legal Procedures Of Risk Management In Belgium: A Case Study, Tomke Lask
Contesting Legal Procedures Of Risk Management In Belgium: A Case Study, Tomke Lask
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Lask evaluates legal procedures for dealing with siting problems in Belgium in the context of an actual conflict, and discusses how citizens' dissatisfaction with governmental systems has resulted in increased involvement in environmental issues.
Reassessing Public Meetings As Participation In Risk Management Decisions, Katherine A. Mccomas, Clifford W. Scherer
Reassessing Public Meetings As Participation In Risk Management Decisions, Katherine A. Mccomas, Clifford W. Scherer
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Using a U.S. case study, Ms. McComas and Dr. Scherer discuss how reliance on public meetings as tools for risk communication in public policy decisions affects relationships between stakeholders and risk managers.
Implementing Structured Participation For Regional Level Waste Management Planning, Elke Schneider, Bettina Oppermann, Ortwin Renn
Implementing Structured Participation For Regional Level Waste Management Planning, Elke Schneider, Bettina Oppermann, Ortwin Renn
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors present a case study example of a well-structured public participation project that was incorporated into the formal decision-making process in Germany.
Demographic Change And Fisheries Dependence In The Northern Atlantic, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Oddmund Otterstad
Demographic Change And Fisheries Dependence In The Northern Atlantic, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Oddmund Otterstad
Sociology
Northern Atlantic fisheries have experienced a series of environmental shifts in recent decades, involving collapse or large fluctuations of the dominant fish assemblages. Over roughly the same period, many fisheries-dependent human communities have lost population, while their countries as a whole were growing. Population loss tends to increase with the degree of fisheries dependence, among communities and sub-national regions of Newfoundland, Iceland and Norway. A close look at Norway, where municipality-level data are most extensive, suggests that population declines reflect not only outmigration, but also changes in fishing-community birth rates. Multiple regression using 1990 and 1980 census data for 454 …
The Importance Of Cost And Effectiveness For Attitudes Towards Lifesaving Interventions, Joakim Ramsberg, Lennart Sjöberg
The Importance Of Cost And Effectiveness For Attitudes Towards Lifesaving Interventions, Joakim Ramsberg, Lennart Sjöberg
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Drs. Ramsberg & Sjöberg present the results of a study that evaluates Swedish attitudes about risks and corresponding lifesaving interventions.
Ethnic Identity And Aspirations Among Rural Alaska Youth, Carole L. Seyfrit, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Cynthia M. Duncan, Jody Grimes
Ethnic Identity And Aspirations Among Rural Alaska Youth, Carole L. Seyfrit, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Cynthia M. Duncan, Jody Grimes
Sociology
The villages of rural Alaska comprise one of the most exceptional, yet least visible, sociocultural environments in the United States They are geographically remote, and set off from the mainstream also by their unique Eskimo, Indian or Aleut cultures. At the same time many economic, legal and cultural connections pull these villages toward the dominant U.S. society, impelling continual and rapid social change. Our research focuses on adolescents growing up in this culturally complex and changing environment. We employ survey data from adolescents in 19 rural schools to explore relationships between ethnic identity and students' expectations about moving away or …
World Views, Political Attitudes And Risk Perception, Lennart Sjöberg
World Views, Political Attitudes And Risk Perception, Lennart Sjöberg
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Sjöberg questions the Cultural Theory approach to evaluating variance in risk perception. He also presents the results of a survey using elements of that and other scales to help explain individual differences in risk perception.
Through A Lens Darkly--Superfund Spectacles On Public Participation At Brownfield Sites, Kris Wernstedt, Robert Hersh
Through A Lens Darkly--Superfund Spectacles On Public Participation At Brownfield Sites, Kris Wernstedt, Robert Hersh
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors discuss the recent trend in brownfield site development against a backdrop of Superfund experience and explore current barriers to public participation.