Perceptions of risk in the post-Soviet world: A qualitative study of responses to falling rockets in the Altai region of Siberia

References

• Abbott , P. , Wallace , C. and Beck , M. 2006 . Chernobyl: Living with risk and uncertainty . Health, risk & society , 8 : 105 – 121 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baverstock , K. and Williams , D. 2006 . The chernobyl accident 20 years on: An assessment of the health consequences and the international response . Environmental Health Perspectives , 114 : 1312 – 1317 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baxter , J. W. 1997 . Exploring the meaning of environmental risk and uncertainty in an environmentally sensitized community . Geography , Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University
   Google Scholar
• Becker , A. B. 2002 . Predictors of perceived control among African American women in Detroit: Exploring empowerment as a multilevel construct . Health Education & Behaviour , 29 : 699 – 715 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Belousov , V. A. , Tribunskij , S.I. , Voronova , N.A. and Solovieva , N.F. 1997 . Rehabilitation and clinic observation system for newborns in the Lokot district. Vestnik nauchnoj programmy ‘Semipalatinskoj Poligon - Altaj’. Jadernye ispytanija. Okruzhajushchaja sreda. Zdorov'e Naselenija . [Bulletin of the scientific programme ‘Semipalatinsk test site - Altai’. Nuclear tests. EnvironmentPublic Health] , 1 : 92 – 95 .
   Google Scholar
• Brewin , T. B. 1993 . Radiation, Chernobyl and the media . The Medico-Legal Journal , 61 ( Pt 4 ) : 204 – 215 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Burlaka , N. M. , Modenova , E.I. , Shchepachev , A.A. and Tarabara , A.V. Ekolo-gigienicheskoe soprovozhdenie vyvoda iz ekspluatatsii i likvidatsii nazemnykh ob'ektov raketnoj tekhniki [Epidemiological support on the elimination of above-grounds elements of the rocket technique] . Conference on Ecological problems of the Exploitation of Rocket and space Technique . 2002 . pp. 58 – 60 . Scientific Centre for Innovative Engineering and Perspective Technologies .
   Google Scholar
• Couch , S. 1996 . “ Environmental contamination, community transformation, and the Centralia mine fire ” . In The long road to recovery: Community responses to industrial disaster , Edited by: Mitchell , J. K. Tokyo : United Nationas University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Crotty , J. and Crane , A. 2004 . Transitions in environmental risk in a transitional economy: Management capability and community trust in Russia . Journal of Risk Research , 7 : 413 – 429 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dawson , J. I. 1996 . Eco-nationalism: Anti-nuclear activism and national identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine , Durham , NC : Duke University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Dmitriev , A. N. , Robertus , Y. V. and Shitov , A. V. 2002 . “ K probleme lokal'nykh geomagnitnykh vozmushchenij pri puskakh raket-nositelej [About the problem of local geomagnetic disturbances during the launch of rocket carriers] ” . Moscow : State University of Gorno-Altaisk .
   Google Scholar
• Drottz-Sjoberg , B.-M. 2000 . Exposure to risk and trust in information: Implications for the credibility of risk communication . Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies , 2 : 1 – 16 .
   Google Scholar
• Edelstein , M. 2004 . Contaminated communities: Coping with residential toxic exposure , London : Westview Press .
   Google Scholar
• Engel , C. C.J. , Adkins , J. A. and Cowan , D. N. 2002 . Caring for mentally unexplained physical symptoms after toxic environmental exposures: Effects of contested causation . Environmental Health Perspectives , 110 : 641 – 647 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fedorov , A. V. 1995 . Rehabilitation of the children who suffered from jaundice during teh newborn period . Vestnik nauchnoj programmy ‘Semipalatinskoj Poligon - Altaj’. Jadernye ispytanija. Okruzhajushchaja sreda. Zdorov'e Naselenija [Bulletin of the scientific programme ‘Semipalatinsk test site - Altai’. Nuclear tests. Environment. Public Health] , : 43 – 57 .
   Google Scholar
• Goldman , M. I. 1975 . The spoils of progress: Environmental pollution in the Soviet Union , Boston , MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Grey , P. 2002 . The human consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident: A strategy for recovery , Minsk : UNDP and UNICEF .
   Google Scholar
• Henry , L. A. and Douhovnikoff , V. 2008 . Environmental issues in Russia . Annual review of environment and resources , 33 : 437 – 460 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Irwin A. Wynne B. Misunderstanding science? The public reconstruction of science and technology Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1996
   Google Scholar
• Josephson , P. R. 1997 . New Atlantis revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian city of science , Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kilshaw , S. M. 2004 . Friendly fire. The construction of Gulf War Syndrome narratives . Anthropology and medicine , 11 : 149 – 160 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Krementsov , N. 1997 . Stalinist science , Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Krishna , A. and Shrader , E. 1999 . Social capital assessment tool. Conference on Social Capital and Poverty Reduction , Washington , DC : The World Bank .
   Google Scholar
• Lazarev , U. S. 1997 . Belarussian mass media and post-Chernobyl public stress formation . Information science for decision making , 3 : 315 – 331 .
   Google Scholar
• Lee , H. , Bale , A. and Gabriel , R. 2005 . Results of investigations on Gulf War veterans . Clinical Medicine , 5 : 166 – 172 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McKee , M. Cochrane on Communism: The influence of ideology on the search for evidence . 40th Annual Meeting of the UK Society for Social Medicine . London .
   Google Scholar
• Meshkov , N. A. and Under the Coordination of . 1999 . “ Otchet o vypolnenii kompleksnoj NIR po teme: ‘Otsenka vlijanija raketno-kosmicheskoj dejatel'nosti na okruzhajushchuju prirodnuju sredu i sostojanie zdorov'ja naselenija Altae-Sajanskogo Regiona’ [Assessment of the impact of rocket and space activity on the environment and the population's health in the Altai-Sayan Region] ” . Moscow, Gosudarstvennoe unitarnoe predprijatie ‘tsentr ekstremal'noj meditsiny’ gosudarstvennoj tekhnicheskoj komissii pri prezidente RF [State Unitarian Enterprise ‘Centre for Extreme Medicine’ at the State Technical Commission of the Russian Federation's Presidential Office]
   Google Scholar
• Moffatt , S. G. and Pless-Mulloli , T. 2003 . ‘It wasn't the plague we expected’. Parents' perceptions of the health and environmental impact of opencast coal mining . Social science and medicine , 57 : 437 – 451 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mozgoyvaya , A. V. 1993 . Social consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe: Some results of sociological research , Newark , Delaware : Disaaster research Centre, University of Delaware .
   Google Scholar
• Nader L. Naked science. anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power and knowledge Routledge London and New York 1996
   Google Scholar
• Paine , R. 1992 . ‘Chernobyl’ reaches Norway: The accident, science, and the threat to cultural knowledge . Public understanding of science , 1 : 261 – 280 .
   Google Scholar
• Petryna , A. 2002 . Life exposed: Biological citizens after Chernobyl , Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Petts , J. 2003 . Risk literacy and the public. MMR, air pollution and mobile phones , Birmingham : Centre for Environmental Research and Training, University of Birmingham .
   Google Scholar
• Pidgeon N. Kasperson R. E. Slovic P. The social amplification of risk Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2003
   Google Scholar
• Profeta , B. , Goncharova , N.P. , Kolyado , I.B. , Robertus , Y.V. and McKee , M. 2010 . Danger from above? A quantitative study of perceptions of hazards from falling rockets in the Altai region of Siberia . Health, risk & society , 12 : 193 – 210 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rinkevicius , L. 2000 . Public risk perceptions in a ‘double-risk’ society: The case of the ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania . European journal of social sciences , 13 : 279 – 289 .
   Google Scholar
• Robertus , Y. V. 2000 . Vlijanie fragmentov raketno-kosmicheskoj tekhniki na ekologicheskuju situatsiju v Altae-Sajanskom Regione [Impact of the fragments of the rocket and space technique on the ecological situation in the Altai-Sayan Region] , Gorno-Altai : Altai Regional Institute of Ecology .
   Google Scholar
• Robinson , E. E. 2002 . Community frame analysis in Love Canal: Understanding messages in a contaminated community . Sociological spectrum , 22 : 139 – 169 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Russian State Committee for the Protection of the Environment . 2001 . Otsenka vozdejstvija kosmicheskogo raketnogo kompleksa ‘Proton-M’ i kompleksa razgonnogo bloka ‘Briz-M’ na okruzhajushchuju prirodnuju sredu (ovos KRK ‘Proton-M’ i KRB ‘Briz-M’) [Assessment of the impact of the rocket space complex ‘Proton-M’ and the complex launching block ‘Briz-M’ on the environment] , Moscow : State Space Scientific and Industrial Centre M.V. Krunichev .
   Google Scholar
• Shoikhet , Y. N. 1999 . A registry for exposure and population health in the Altai region affected by fallout from the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site . Radiation and environmental biophysics , 38 : 207 – 210 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shoikhet , Y. N. 2002 . “ Patologicheskaja porazhennost' naselenija, prozhivajushchego v zonakh Altajskogo Kraja, prilegajushchikh k rajonam padenija otdeljajushchikhsja chastej raket-nositelej [Pathological point prevalence in the populations living in the areas of the Altai Region, located in proximity to the fallout areas of the rocket carriers' fragments] ” . Novokuznetsk/ Barnaul, GU NII Kompleksnykh Problem Gigieny i Professional'nykh Zabolevanij Sibirskogo Otdelenija Rossijskoj Akademii Nauk [State Research Institute for Hygiene and Occupational Health of the Siberian Depatment of the Russian Academy of Sciences] GU NII Regional'nykh Mediko-Ekologicheskikh Problem [State Research Institute for Regional Medical adn Ecological Problems] Komitet Administratsii Altajskogo Kraja po Zdravookhraneniju [Department of Health of the Altai Region]
   Google Scholar
• Slovic , P. 2001 . Perception of risk , London : Earthscan .
   Google Scholar
• Small , I. , Van Der Meer , J. and Upshur , R. E. 2001 . Acting on an environmental health disaster: The case of the Aral Sea . Environmental Health Perspectives , 109 : 547 – 549 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith J. Beresford N. A. Chernobyl: Catastrophe and consequences Springer New York 2005
   Google Scholar
• Weiner , D. R. 1999 . A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachëv , Berkeley , CA : University of California Press .
   Google Scholar
• Wessely , S. 1997 . Chronic fatigue syndrome: A 20th century illness? . Scandinavian journal of work and environmental health , 23 : 17 – 34 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wetherell , M. , Taylor , S. and Yates , S. 2001 . Discourse theory and practice. A reader , London : Sage .
   Google Scholar