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Keeping the public informed? Public negotiation of air quality information (2001)
Journal Article
Bush, J., Moffatt, S., & Dunn, C. (2001). Keeping the public informed? Public negotiation of air quality information. Public Understanding of Science, 10(2), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/10/2/304

Air quality information has been made available to the public in the UK since 1990. However, relatively little work has been done to explore the impact of this information and the ways in which it is interpreted and evaluated by members of the public... Read More about Keeping the public informed? Public negotiation of air quality information.

'Even the birds round here cough': stigma, air pollution and health in Teesside (2001)
Journal Article
Bush, J., Moffatt, S., & Dunn, C. (2001). 'Even the birds round here cough': stigma, air pollution and health in Teesside. Health & Place, 7(1), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1353-8292%2800%2900037-x

In this paper we explore how the presence of hazardous industry may affect the identity of a place and the people who live there. Drawing on Goffman's seminal work on stigma — together with recent debates on environmental and technological stigma — w... Read More about 'Even the birds round here cough': stigma, air pollution and health in Teesside.

Analysing spatially referenced public health data: a comparison of three methodological approaches (2001)
Journal Article
Dunn, C., Kingham, S., Rowlingson, B., Bhopal, R., Cockings, S., Foy, C., …Walker, D. (2001). Analysing spatially referenced public health data: a comparison of three methodological approaches. Health & Place, 7(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1353-8292%2800%2900033-2

In the analysis of spatially referenced public health data, members of different disciplinary groups (geographers, epidemiologists and statisticians) tend to select different methodological approaches, usually those with which they are already famili... Read More about Analysing spatially referenced public health data: a comparison of three methodological approaches.