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T1 - Unruly pathogens : eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge.
AU - Fish, Rob
AU - Winter, Michael
AU - Oliver, David M.
AU - Chadwick, David
AU - Selfa, Theresa
AU - Heathwaite, Louise
AU - Hodgson, Chris
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - This paper examines some of the theoretical and methodological issues arising from the process of conceptualising and eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge. Drawing on the experience of a recent research project examining the relationship between livestock farming systems and microbial watercourse pollution the paper reflects critically upon efforts to develop an interdisciplinary assessment of the factors that may affect the loss of potential pathogens from agricultural land to water courses as the basis for targeting high risk fields and farms. The paper describes the procedures for designing the natural and cultural parameters that surround microbial risks and the issues that are raised for making whole system assessments workable based on contrasting and unstable systems of disciplinary insight. Situated within claims about the need for generating reliable and widely applicable assessments of environmental risk the paper suggests that interdisciplinary working raises important issues about the role of ‘uncertain’ knowledge in the management of ‘known’ risks.
AB - This paper examines some of the theoretical and methodological issues arising from the process of conceptualising and eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge. Drawing on the experience of a recent research project examining the relationship between livestock farming systems and microbial watercourse pollution the paper reflects critically upon efforts to develop an interdisciplinary assessment of the factors that may affect the loss of potential pathogens from agricultural land to water courses as the basis for targeting high risk fields and farms. The paper describes the procedures for designing the natural and cultural parameters that surround microbial risks and the issues that are raised for making whole system assessments workable based on contrasting and unstable systems of disciplinary insight. Situated within claims about the need for generating reliable and widely applicable assessments of environmental risk the paper suggests that interdisciplinary working raises important issues about the role of ‘uncertain’ knowledge in the management of ‘known’ risks.
KW - Risk assessment
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Uncertainty
KW - Pathogens
KW - Expert
KW - Knowledge
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2009.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.envsci.2009.02.002
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 281
EP - 296
JO - Environmental Science and Policy
JF - Environmental Science and Policy
SN - 1462-9011
IS - 3
ER -