Toxicity and Complicity: Explaining Consensual Community Response to a Chronic Technological Disaster

Collective Identity and Memory: A Comparative Analysis of Community Response to Environmental Hazards

“…Yet in other cases communities remain quiescent in the wake of discovered environmental threats, failing to collectively challenge either polluting industries or regulatory agencies (Cable, Shriver, and Hastings ; Couch and Coles ; Zavestoski et al. ). Researchers have worked to explain this variation in community response, pointing to basic demographic variables such as race, gender, age, education, and length of residence in the community (Goodman, Vaughan, and Gill ; Hunter ; Jacques et al.…”

Natural Resource-Based Communities, Risk, and Disaster: An Intersection of Theories

“…This work has shown the complexity of perception and community dynamics, including the role of local empowerment and action in responding to risk (Zavestoski et al 2002;Gregory and Satterfield 2002;Picou and Gill 2000;Gunter et al 1999;Wulfhorst and Krannich 1999;Murdock et al 1999;Rich et al 1995;Fitchen et al 1987). The focus on community response to risk acknowledges that risks are shared and experienced collectively in the interface between environmental and social processes.…”

“…Recent research disputes the assumption of corrosive response to risk, illuminating cases where consensus and empowerment emerged in the face of technological risk (Zavestoski et al 2002;Gunter et al 1999;Rich et al 1995). Moreover, risk research has ignored natural risks or the many risks arising from a combination of natural and anthropogenic processes, especially in the case of natural resource management (Axelrod et al 1999).…”

Frame Disputes in a Natural Resource Controversy: The Case of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer in South-Central Oklahoma

“…In these cases, multiple stakeholder groups often disagree over the inherent social, economic, and political implications associated with the sale of water (Gramling and Krogman 1997;Jackson and Pradubraj 2004;Krogman 1996;Renner 1996). While there is variation in community reactions to environmental threats Gunter 1992a, b, 1994;Gunter et al 1999;Webb 2006;Zavestoski et al 2002), most analysts emphasize the negative impacts of environmental disputes on community relations.…”