Power, politics and environmental inequality: A theoretical and empirical analysis of the process of ‘peripheralisation’

Fair fracking? Ethics and environmental justice in United Kingdom shale gas policy and planning

“…Areas of existing socio-economic marginalisation then become at risk of being disproportionately targeted by developers that assume weaker political opposition to site selection. If successful the degraded environmental quality and associated technological stigma (see Cast ‡n Broto et al 2010) form fracking worsens the socio-economic conditions for affected communities, creating a vicious cycle as communities then become further dependent upon the gas revenue stream and associated benefits payments Ð a process referred to as peripheralisation (Blowers and Leroy 1994).…”

The social and policy approach of the environment in the Netherlands. A state of the art

“…Hence authors from a sociological perspective aimed a great deal of criticism at this research, arguing that the opinions, attitudes and behaviour of individuals who are more or Jess insulated from their socially-structuring environment, say little about the mechanisms controlling collective and structured environmental behaviour and the potential for changing it. For a more extensive critique, both on a national and an internationallevel, we refer to Leroy (1983), Lowe and Rüdig (1986), Blowers and Leroy (1994) and Spaargaren (1997).…”

Paysage industriel, lieu de médiation sociale et enjeu de développement durable et de justice environnementale :

“…La question du paysage apparaît toutefois comme étant secondaire dans le discours, pour ne pas dire inexistante. vre, dite «lapresqu'île nucléaire», à ceux de Coanus et al (1999) et de Duchesne (1999 sur le couloir de la chimie de Lyon, de même qu'aux recherches des britanniques Irwin (1995;et al ) et Blowers (1999et Leroy, 1994). Leurs fines études de cas montrent comment les habitants vivent ces rapports avec les grandes firmes dans la quotidienneté, comment les risques sont progressivement construits, relativisés et mis à distance pour être «supportables» et comment l'attachement au territoire s'en trouve marqué.…”