A body of psychological and social scientific evidence suggests that the experience of
technological disaster or long-term exposure to environmental contamination can be …

Natural resource-based communities are often theoretically assumed to be vulnerable to the
negative effects of environmental and social change. Such communities are also seen as …

Unconventional oil and gas technology such as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) has created
a boom in production in the United States. In this paper we add to the growing literature on …

The degree to which risk perceptions are socially constructed versus the result of actual
exposure to risk is highly contested; how risk exposure and risk perception influence policy …

Research in environmental sociology typically focuses on how communities mobilize
against polluting industries in “not in my backyard”(NIMBY) reactions or accept industrial …

Research has explored the ways in which communities respond to local polluting facilities.
In some cases, residents mobilize to confront corporate and state polluters, whereas in other …

À partir du cas du désastre de Seveso (1976), l'article aborde la question de l'intégration de
l'environnement dans la construction d'un «monde en commun», à travers l'analyse de …

We adapt the frame-alignment perspective in order to demonstrate how institutional framing
shapes media coverage of a toxic crisis. This framing activity is described as a new …

In the US, governance for oil and gas development has been increasingly devolved from
centralized, relatively powerful governments to lower levels of government. At the same time …

On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to
protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their …