Environmental risk, uncertainty and participation: mapping an emergent epistemic community

Chilvers, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-1653 (2008) Environmental risk, uncertainty and participation: mapping an emergent epistemic community. Environment and Planning A, 40 (12). pp. 2990-3008. ISSN 0308-518X

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Resources, Sustainability and Governance (former - to 2018)
Depositing User:	Rachel Snow
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2011 16:05
Last Modified:	20 Mar 2023 10:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/25355
DOI:	10.1068/a39279

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