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Abstract
Overall, when the Swedish National Board of Housing and Planning has had a proper communication/information budget the Board has been successful with regard to communicating the risks associated with radon, leading to homes being measured, and ensuring that individuals apply for up to half the costs associated with radon sanitation measures. When the Board has not had these funds it has not been successful. What is clear now is that the Board will only reach parts of the government’s generation goal regarding reducing radon set out in the important Government Bill of 2001. Schools and larger dwellings will meet the government set radon standards, but single-family dwellings will not. As a result, radon pollution in some shape or form will continue to cause radon-induced lung cancer in some 500 Swedes per annum until new measures are taken.
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Birgitta Frejd and the other members of the communications department at the Swedish National Board of Housing and Planning for looking after me so well when I spent the day with them in Karlskrona on the 20 January 2017, as well as for providing me with background information on the radon campaign and finally for commenting on an earlier version of this paper. I am also grateful to Asa Boholm, Ann Bostrom, Frederic Bouder, and Dominic Way for their constructive comments on an earlier version of this paper. Excerpts of this paper were first presented at the Society for Risk Analysis Europe annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal on the 20 June 2017. The paper was in part funded by a grant from the Swedish Research Foundation FORMAS, via the University of Gothenburg, where the author is a visiting professor.