15 Fakultätsübergreifend / Sonstige Einrichtung
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Item Open Access Public participation in decision making : a three-step procedure(1993) Renn, Ortwin; Webler, Thomas; Rakel, Horst; Dienel, Peter; Johnson, BrandenThis article introduces a novel model of public participation in political decisions structured in three consecutive steps, the model is based on the view that stakeholders, experts and cItizens should each contribute to the planning effort their particular expertise and experience. Stakeholders are valuable resources for eliciting concerns and developing evaluative criteria since their interests are at stake and they have already made attempts to structure and approach the issue. Experts are necessary to provide the data base and the functional relationships between options and impacts. Citizens are the potential victims and benefactors of proposed planning measures, they are the best judges to evaluate the different options available on the basis of the concerns and impacts revealed through the other two groups. The three-step model has been developed and frequently applied as a planning tool in West Germany. We compare this experience with the model's first application in the United States, and conclude that the three-step procedure offers a limited, but promising future for democratizing policy making in the United States.Item Open Access Die Grenzen überschreiten : die Psychologie des Risikos(1993) Renn, OrtwinDer Mensch segelt über die Weltmeere, besteigt die höchsten Gipfel, fliegt auf den Mond. Gleichzeitig fürchtet er sich vor Naturkatastrophen und atomaren Unfällen. Ein Widerspruch? Mit psychologischer Risikoforschung ann man diesem Paradoxon auf den Grund gehen.Item Open Access Corporate environmentalism in a global economy : societal values in international technology transfer [Auszug](1993) Brown, Halina S.; Derr, Patrick; Renn, Ortwin; White, Allen L.This book reflects a melding of several streams of research. Nearly two decades ago, researchers at Clark University's Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED) engaged the problem of classifying, comparing, and managing technological hazards. This early work kindled an interest in the ethical and value issues attendant in societal management of hazards, and the group took on studies of equity issues in the management of radioactive wastes and of the management of differential susceptibility and exposures to hazards in the workplace and the general environment. A focus on the corporate sector flowed naturally from that earlier work at CENTED, and its first chapter came to fruition in a 1988 volume on the corporate management of health and safety. This book can be viewed as the serond chapter. It focuses on the international aspects of hazard management at manufacturing facilities and extends the analytical perspective to include all the key actors in international technology transfer: host countries, multinational corporations, and host country joint venture partners.Item Open Access The social arena concept of risk debates(1993) Renn, OrtwinThis chapter illuminates one aspect of the complex risk issue that needs more theoretical grounding before it can become part of a synoptic framework. At this time, we have fairly good knowledge of the prospects and limitations of technical risk analyses; a fairly good understanding of individual risk perception; case study data about institutional management and organizational constraints; a fair amount of data from investigations into the media coverage of risk and its impacts on individual perception; interesting and often challenging essays on social constructions of risk issues; and many studies about social mobilization for political purposes. What appears to be missing, however, is a better understanding of the structural factors that shape interactions among social groups and influence the outcome of social conflicts over risk.