Public understandings of air pollution: the 'localisation' of environmental risk
Public understandings of air pollution: the 'localisation' of environmental risk
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DOI：
10.1016/s0959-3780(00)00063-7
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发表时间：
2001-07-01
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Walker, G
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文献类型：
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作者：
Bickerstaff, K;Walker, G
公众对全球环境风险的理解的最新观点强调了解释，判断和“意义”的发生，是不可分割地联系在一起的“本地”背景方面的感知模式。在本文中，我们提供了一个目前的方式，居民认为城市空气污染的问题。为此，我们利用了一个更广泛的研究项目的元素，涉及调查和对公众的深入采访。通过这种方式，并借鉴以前的空气污染感知文献和环境和风险感知领域的最新工作，我们提出了一个比迄今为止更分析的解释。得出的结论，强调本地化的人的理解内直接的物理，社会和文化景观，也通过个人经验的信任在任何形式的信息为基础的证据。从这个位置，并与政策的影响的发展，我们证明了需要研究公众的看法，如果空气质量的目标，更普遍的是，环境管理要实现。(C)2001爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
Recent perspectives on public understandings of global environmental risk have emphasised the interpretation, judgement and 'sense-making' that takes place, modes of perception that are inextricably tied to aspects of 'local' context. In this paper we offer a current picture of the ways in which residents think about the problem of urban air pollution. To do this we utilise elements of a wider research project involving a survey and in-depth interviews with members of the public. In this way - and drawing upon the prior air pollution perception literature and recent work in the field of environmental and risk perception - we present a more analytical interpretation than has hitherto been approached. Conclusions are drawn which stress the localisation of people's understandings within the immediate physical, social and cultural landscape and also through a trust in personal experiences over any kind of information-based evidence. From this position, and with the development of implications for policy, we demonstrate the need to study public perceptions if the objectives of air quality, and more generally, environmental management are to be achieved. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.