Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden)

To avert environmental degradation, the governments of most nations have put in place environmental regulations to ensure sustainable development. But environmental laws can not solve the problem alone; communication is an important tool in ensuring environmental regulation and avoiding conflict dur...

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Autor principal: Yang, Edmond
Formato: H1
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development 2010
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description To avert environmental degradation, the governments of most nations have put in place environmental regulations to ensure sustainable development. But environmental laws can not solve the problem alone; communication is an important tool in ensuring environmental regulation and avoiding conflict during the process of environmental inspection. The aim of this paper was to study the role of communication in environmental inspection. Interviews were used as the principle method for data collection. Results obtained revealed that lack of communication led to conflict between the environmental inspectors and the economic operators. Strategies were used by both the inspectors and their clients to avoid conflict or to avoid misunderstanding escalating in to conflict. It was also revealed that the clients saw the inspectors as having power of sanctioning them, and that trust existed between the inspectors and their clients. One other finding was that environmental inspections made use of participatory approach. This ensured that the opinions of both the inspectors and their clients were taken in to account during inspection thus making it possible for the exploration of both parties' perspectives
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spelling RepoSLU16912012-04-20T14:15:15Z Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden) Yang, Edmond environmental protection power communication environmental inspectors conflict trust To avert environmental degradation, the governments of most nations have put in place environmental regulations to ensure sustainable development. But environmental laws can not solve the problem alone; communication is an important tool in ensuring environmental regulation and avoiding conflict during the process of environmental inspection. The aim of this paper was to study the role of communication in environmental inspection. Interviews were used as the principle method for data collection. Results obtained revealed that lack of communication led to conflict between the environmental inspectors and the economic operators. Strategies were used by both the inspectors and their clients to avoid conflict or to avoid misunderstanding escalating in to conflict. It was also revealed that the clients saw the inspectors as having power of sanctioning them, and that trust existed between the inspectors and their clients. One other finding was that environmental inspections made use of participatory approach. This ensured that the opinions of both the inspectors and their clients were taken in to account during inspection thus making it possible for the exploration of both parties' perspectives SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development 2010 H1 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/1691/
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Yang, Edmond
Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden)
title Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden)
title_full Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden)
title_fullStr Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden)
title_full_unstemmed Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden)
title_short Environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of Uppsala Municipality (Sweden)
title_sort environmental management : communication and conflict during environmental inspection : a case study of uppsala municipality (sweden)
topic environmental protection
power
communication
environmental inspectors
conflict
trust