post normal science

Post-normal rationality in assessment of environmental damage and environmental risk

The concern about the effects of environmental pollution, due to industries, energy extraction, waste, that has been spread into the society and increase the behavioral change of citizens. The paper tells about the environmental conflict that affects South of Italy, since the ‘90s, starting from the pollution due to steel industry, carbon power-stations, drilling and piping gas or petroleum. The conflict arose at the highest political level of discussion, by involving political and judiciary power.

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