Citizen Groups And Hazardous Waste: Their Careers And Conditions For Emergence
Date
1987
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Disaster Research Center
Abstract
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Several years ago, the Disaster Research Center (DRC) initiated and
undertook an extensive sociological study of community based citizen groups
which emerged either to prepare for and/or recover from actual disasters
and potential threats. The research extended over a four-year period and focused on local citizen groups who came into being outside of any
immediate emergency period and who were oriented to a full range of hazards
from floods and hurricanes to nuclear and chemical plants and hazardous
waste sites. In-depth interviewing was undertaken of members of over 50 such groups around the United States. Local organizational and community
statistical and documentary data were also collected to supplement the
interview data.
A telephone follow up survey of selected members was undertaken a year after the groups were first studied.
Keywords
Citizen Groups, Hazardous Waste, Documentary Data