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Introduction:
Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation
at the University of Virginia, suggests that not all issues pertaining to the
environment are framed as environmental concerns. Much depends on whether one is approaching
an issue from an environmental perspective, a business perspective, or a public
interest perspective.
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Framing Environmental Issues
Frank Dukes
Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia
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Not all issues are framed that way, framed in terms of
environmental concerns, or where you would have environmental advocates
substantially involved. In the superfund work, for instance, we're just
finishing and are now distributing the final report for a superfund sight.
There's a sight that has environmental problems, contamination from chemicals
affecting the ground water, and yet people don't see it as primarily an
environmental issue. They see it as a concern for my community, for my property
values, for my health, and to a lesser extent, yes, there's going to be some
impact on some of the resources, the creeks, where the ground water has actually
discharged into, and runoff too, where the water has discharged into the creeks.
People aren't so concerned about that because they think that's being cleaned
up, that it's being addressed. Things aren't necessarily framed as, "Here's
an environmental issue, and we have an environmental perspective, we have a
business perspective, and there's a public interest perspective," its often
not framed that way.
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