Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peanut Butter, Radical Action, Aflatoxin
8 Oct 2020
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Usually stay in place: change, awareness of hazard (no denial) radical action taken (move away) Evocative hazards: hazards that aren"t likely to be serious but typically evoke much public eg. pesticides reaction: use for lawn care become issue due to awareness of potential impact. Banal hazards: relatively more serous but evoke little public reaction eg. peanut butter (high level of aflatoxin) once every 10 days present risk for cnacer. Amplification: involves hazards that have low probability as assess by experts. Attenuation: hazard that may have serious physical impacts and relatively higher probability. Signal value: signals can be prescribed values values by receiver, high signal values suggest that new risk has appeared or that risk is different than related to characteristics of event and hazards it reflects previously understood. Stigmatization: process which negative images ascribed to places, tech, people. Spread like ripples, often extend beyond local area.
