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