Rationalizing risk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2615203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Achim Schlüter (0000-0002-0046-7263, Humboldt University of Berlin [email protected], corresponding author), Peter Phillimore (0000-0001-7083-2492, Univerity of Newcastle [email protected]) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 2005 |
| Issue | 46 |
| Pages | 79-90 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/092012906780786834 |
| OpenAlex | W1997753144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article examines the centrality of 'safety' in Grangemouth's recent politics. Scotland's main petrochemical center is a town dominated for well over fifty years by a major BP complex. In a context of extensive redundancies at BP, new insecurities surrounding the future of the company's Grangemouth site, and a series of recent accidents, as well as controversy over planning applications from other chemical companies, the town has been pushed into unusually searching questioning about both safety and economic security. This article explores the different lines of reasoning and rationalization on risk, safety, and the future advanced by regulators, BP, and residents and their political representatives. We emphasize how important the familiarity of petrochemical technology has been in public responses to the question of safety, in contrast to many environmental risk controversies. And we argue that safety has provided a focus for social, moral, economic, and political perspectives on the town's present circumstances and future prospects to be played out
Bureaucracy · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · History · Law · Risk Perception and Management
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |