Browsing Research Report by Author "Boholm, Åsa"

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Attitudes towards nanomaterials and nanotechnology among Swedish expert stakeholders: Risk, benefit and regulation

Larsson, Simon; Boholm, Åsa; Magnus, Jansson (2017-12-06)

The aim of this study is to investigate attitudes towards nanomaterials and nanotechnology among Swedish expert stakeholders. The study explores the views of these experts on a number of topics in connection to nanotechnology ...
The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden

Corvellec, Hervé; Boholm, Åsa (2008-02-07)

Risk is a key topic in the communication between developers of infrastructure projects, permit-granting authorities, and civil society. The nature of risk communication is contested among academics, however. Whereas some ...
The role of valuation practices for risk identification

Boholm, Åsa; Corvellec, Hervé (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2015)

This report uses a relational theory of risk within which risk is understood as a relationship between a risk object and an object at risk where the risk object threatens the value embedded in the object at risk. A case ...