Situating local experience of risk: Peripherality, marginality and place identity in the UK foot and mouth disease crisis

Geoforum

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 844-858

  Bickerstaff, Karen ^a   Simmons, Peter ^a   Pidgeon, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England; Environmental risk; Foot and mouth disease; Marginality; Peripherality; Place; Place myths; Space

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HEALTH RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745957755     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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