‘It's always dark in front of the pickaxe’: Organizing ignorance in the long-term remediation of contaminated land

Time & Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 316-334

  Gross, Matthias ^a   Bleicher, Alena ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contaminated land; decision making; nonknowledge; public policy; remediation; time and ignorance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887384517     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: 14617463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X12444059     Document Type: Article

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