Evaluation of Environmental Issues

Bohren, Lenora

doi:10.1525/napa.2005.24.1.049

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“…As STS literature demonstrates, the evaluation of cleanup outcomes might incorporate more socially oriented measures as well as new ways of measuring that are more inclusive of distinct ways of knowing and that involve a greater variety of social actors (Allen 2020;Delbourne and Galusky 2011;Frickel et al 2009;Hoover 2020;Morello-Frosch et al 2011;Nading 2020). Lenora Bohren (2005) explicitly calls for anthropologists to become more involved with environmental evaluation projects and to bring with them holistic perspectives and the use of qualitative and quantitative techniques. Ethnography, in particular, can create space for deliberation and so "loop, turning ethnographic fi ndings back into the system" (Fortun 2012: 456).…”

Section: New Directions For Measuring Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing and Capturing Outcomes of Environmental Cleanup at Contaminated Sites

Kiessling

Maxwell

2021

Environment and Society

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Our article analyzes interdisciplinary literature within the social sciences on outcomes of environmental cleanups at Superfund, brownfield, and other contaminated sites. By focusing on postremediation sites and outcomes, we expand the understanding of the sociopolitical life of contaminated sites over time. First, we examine the technoscientific practices of how scientists and environmental managers seek to make cleanup outcomes legible and meaningful. Next, we engage with a wider array of literature on pollution/toxicity, uncovering circular temporalities in cleanup processes along with continuities in pollution/toxicity and in political struggle. Finally, we examine the social worlds of postremediation landscapes, drawing attention to how cleanups create new relationships among people, history, and nature. In conclusion, we identify areas of opportunity for these insights to inform the conceptualization and evaluation of cleanup outcomes in ways that better incorporate the complex dynamics of postremediation social worlds.

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Section: New Directions For Measuring Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%