Le Naour, Gwenola <br/><br/>
Developing New Knowledge to Overcome the "Social Acceptability" of Industrial Risks 

 -  2024.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> In industrial risk management policies, the notion of social acceptability refers to the idea that risks must be accepted by local residents, and that industrialists have a duty to behave as "good neighbors". Today, this notion is used less and less, and many agree that risks can no longer be imposed, as was implied by the notion of acceptability. The issues of information and communication were also put at the heart of this policy, with the idea that local residents were not sufficiently informed and that industrialists did not communicate enough about their activities and their effects. The repeated failures of public policies aimed at generating consent for polluting industrial facilities invite us to question the foundations of industrial risk management policies, to propose ways of renewing knowledge about these sites, and to insist on the contribution of disciplines such as sociology, history, geography and information and communication sciences to the understanding of environmental injustices and industrial illnesses.‪