La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque

Regarding chronic exposures, time durably blurs the causal link and plays against the victims. There is often a lag period between exposure and the appearance of the first symptoms. Victims rely on the discovery of a cluster and take the risk assessment by creating a community of interests. This lay...

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Main Author: Valentine Erné-Heintz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TELEMME - UMR 6570 2020-11-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/5237
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description Regarding chronic exposures, time durably blurs the causal link and plays against the victims. There is often a lag period between exposure and the appearance of the first symptoms. Victims rely on the discovery of a cluster and take the risk assessment by creating a community of interests. This lay knowledge from local knowledge alongside official expertise disrupts the risk analysis process. But more than an opposition, it is a circulation between several methodologies because the objective is not to substitute for scientific expertise but to raise a risk not taken into account or neglected by the public authorities.
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La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque
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environmental health
expertise
risk
title La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque
title_full La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque
title_fullStr La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque
title_full_unstemmed La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque
title_short La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque
title_sort la sante environnementale un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s invite dans l evaluation du risque
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environmental health
expertise
risk
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