A discourse analysis of the communication of ecological risk and its subsequent management in China
Abstract
This paper will study three sources of discourse for
the communication of ecological risk in China and its subsequent management:
the discourse of informal, nongovernmental or emergent civil society
communication of ecological risk (social movements, protest movements, critical
analysis of risk and governmental policy); the discourse of formal or academic,
nongovernmental communication of ecological risk (academics, advisers,
opinion-makers); the official, governmental communication of ecological risk
(official think tanks, ministry documents). The working hypothesis of this
study is that even though awareness of ecological risk is high among the emergent
civil society, the ministry advisers and the policy-makers, the management of
ecological risk is hampered by contradictory priorities and criteria in the
meritocratic evaluation of performance by government and Party officials, on
the one hand, and the generation of wealth, on the other. This debate is
analogous to the debate on efficiency (the generation of wealth) and equity
(the redistribution of wealth) in the field of economic planning and
performance.
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