Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Sci Total Environ. 2018 May 15;624:1369-1386. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.133. Epub 2017 Dec 27.
An increasing diversity of technologies are being used to remediate contaminated sites, yet there remains little understanding of the level of acceptance that residents living near these sites hold for these technologies, and what factors influence their level of acceptance. This lack of understanding hinders the remediation industry's ability to effectively engage with these residents about remediation technology selection, at a time when such engagement is become part and parcel of remediation policy and practice. The study develops on wider research into public acceptance of technologies, using data from a telephone survey of 2009 residents living near thirteen contaminated sites across Australia. Within the survey acceptance is measured through residents' level of support for the application of remediation technologies in their local area. Firstly, a regression analysis of closed-ended questions, and coding of open-ended questions are combined to identify the main predictors of residents' support for remediation technologies. Secondly, coding of open-ended questions was analysed using Crawford and Ostrom's Institutional Grammar Tool to identify norms and sanctions guiding residents' willingness to negotiate their support. The research identifies factors associated with the residents' personal and demographic characteristics, their physical context and engagement with institution during remediation processes, and the technologies themselves which predict residents' level of support for the application of remediation technologies. Bioremediation technologies had higher levels of support than chemical, thermal and physical technologies. Furthermore, the paper identifies a core set of norms and sanctions residents use to negotiate their level of support for remediation technologies.
越来越多的技术正被用于受污染场地的修复，但对于居住在这些场地附近的居民对这些技术的接受程度，以及哪些因素影响他们的接受程度，人们仍然知之甚少。这种缺乏了解阻碍了修复行业在选择修复技术时与这些居民进行有效沟通的能力，而这种沟通在修复政策和实践中已经成为不可或缺的一部分。本研究在更广泛的公众对技术接受度研究的基础上展开，利用澳大利亚 13 个受污染场地附近 2009 名居民的电话调查数据。在调查中，居民对在当地应用修复技术的支持程度是通过接受度来衡量的。首先，对封闭式问题进行回归分析，并对开放式问题进行编码，以确定居民支持修复技术的主要预测因素。其次，使用克劳福德和奥斯特罗姆的制度语法工具对开放式问题的编码进行分析，以确定指导居民愿意协商其支持的规范和制裁。研究确定了与居民的个人和人口特征、他们的物理环境以及在修复过程中与机构的参与以及技术本身相关的因素，这些因素预测了居民对应用修复技术的支持程度。生物修复技术比化学、热和物理技术得到了更高的支持。此外，本文还确定了一套核心的规范和制裁，居民可以用这些规范和制裁来协商他们对修复技术的支持程度。
