Environmental Risk, Uncertainty, and Participation: Mapping an Emergent Epistemic Community
Environmental Risk, Uncertainty, and Participation: Mapping an Emergent Epistemic Community
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环境风险、不确定性和参与：绘制新兴认知社区
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2008
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J. Chilvers
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J. Chilvers
随着人们对参与式环境评估和决策的兴趣与日俱增，塑造这些新治理空间的行为者仍未得到充分研究。本文试图通过深入的实证研究，通过围绕英国环境风险领域的参与性评估实践建立的网络，对公众参与科学的描述重新集中到这些参与性评估专家或社区专家身上。绘制这一新兴认知界的一般性质和特征图，为分析它是如何演变并已开始影响放射性废物领域的政策进程提供了背景。探讨了在科学-政策界面研究公共参与专家网络的前景，以及在不确定情况下对协商民主的更广泛影响。
Amid increasing interest in participatory forms of environmental appraisal and decision making, the actors shaping these new governance spaces remain understudied. This paper seeks to refocus accounts of public engagement in science onto these participatory appraisal experts, or ‘experts of community’, through drawing on in-depth empirical research that followed them through networks building up around participatory appraisal practice in the UK environmental-risk domain. A mapping of the general nature and character of this emerging epistemic community provides the context within which to analyse how it has evolved and has begun to influence policy processes in the area of radioactive waste. Prospects for studying networks of public engagement experts at the science–policy interface and wider implications for deliberative democracy under uncertainty are explored.