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| Författare |
Hervé Corvellec Åsa Boholm |
|---|---|
| Publicerad i | Local Environment |
| Volym | 13 |
| Nummer/häfte | 7 |
| Sidor | 627-640 |
| ISSN | 1354-9839 |
| Publiceringsår | 2008 |
| Publicerad vid |
Förvaltningshögskolan Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI) Centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (CEFOS) |
| Sidor | 627-640 |
| Språk | en |
| Ämnesord | environmental impact assessment (EIA), new rhetoric, wind power, Sweden, risk communication, environmental planning |
| Ämneskategorier | Elkraftteknik, Miljöteknik, Studier av offentlig förvaltning |
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 scholars conceive of risk communication as a matter of effectively communicating expert knowledge on factual matters to the public, others emphasise the role of symbolic construction and rhetoric. This article analyses how wind farm developers rhetorically construct risks in relation to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a large offshore wind farm project. Our analysis is inspired by the New Rhetoric, the theory of argumentation developed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (Trait de l'argumentation - la nouvelle rhtorique, Brussels: ditions des presses de l'universit de Bruxelles, 1958). We suggest that the EIA adopt a dual argumentative strategy. The report associates numerous risks with the project by identifying and cataloguing them; however, these risks are also disconnected from the project by being described as nonexistent, negligible, or manageable. We discuss some implications of considering EIAs, not as accounts of reality, but as loci of production for this reality.
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