Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Department of Geography, King's College London, United Kingdom.
Sci Total Environ. 2017 Feb 15;580:882-899. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.035. Epub 2016 Dec 22.
The choice of technologies used to remediate contaminated environments are increasingly made via engagement with affected local residents. Despite this, little is known about how residents perceive remediation technology applications. Building on the findings of broader technology worry research, and drawing on data from a telephone survey of 2009 residents living near thirteen contaminated sites in Australia, regression analysis of closed-ended survey questions and coding analysis of open-ended survey questions are combined to identify the main predictors of worries concerning particular remediation technologies, and how worry affects them. This suggests respondents are more worried about the application of chemical remediation technologies than the application of physical and thermal technologies, which in turn caused more worry than the application of biotechnology. The paper suggests that these worries can be reduced via direct engagement with residents about remediation technologies, suggesting that such engagement can provide knowledge that improves remediation technology decisions.
用于修复污染环境的技术选择越来越多地通过与受影响的当地居民接触来做出。尽管如此，对于居民如何看待修复技术应用，我们知之甚少。本研究以更广泛的技术担忧研究的发现为基础，并借鉴了 2009 年澳大利亚 13 个污染场地附近 200 名居民的电话调查数据，将封闭式调查问题的回归分析和开放式调查问题的编码分析相结合，以确定对特定修复技术的担忧的主要预测因素，以及担忧如何影响他们。这表明，与物理和热技术相比，受访者更担心化学修复技术的应用，而热技术的应用又比生物技术的应用引起更多的担忧。本文认为，通过直接与居民就修复技术进行接触，可以减少这些担忧，这表明这种接触可以提供有助于修复技术决策的知识。
