01493pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002000040245004200060260000900102300001200111362000800123520102700131650001401158773002001172909001001192999001701202952010401219180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aTesh, Sylvia N.  aCitizen experts in environmental risk  c1999  ap.39-58  aMar  aIn the last two decades, public administrators have increasingly faced groups of people with opposing views about the risks of exposure to environmental contaminants. Because of a series of intriguing studies on risk perception, the situation is frequently seen, by scholars and administrators alike, as a conflict between experts and citizens, and risk communication guidelines are based on this interpretation. But the citizen-expert dichotomy appears fallacious when it is examined in light of the ways citizens actually participate in environmental policy making. The dichotomy overlooks the fact that citizens express their perception of risk largely through organized citizen groups, and that these groups employ and have access to many experts. This essay uses a mainstream environmental group and a number of grassroots environmental groups to illustrate the point. It concludes that the more important conflict is between experts who find environmental pollution safe and those who find it hazardous. - Reproduced  aPollution  aPolicy Sciences  a41415  c41415d41415  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 32, Issue no: 1pAR41791r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR