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SRA Europe conference Building bridges For a
future Research on risk issues La Haye, the
Netherlands, June 17th-19th, 2007
A special symposium disaster and media in
Europe a quantitative approach Monday, June
18th 2007 From 11.00 am to 12.30
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Chair Dominique DOLISY-BONNETAUD, European Risk
Institute, Managing Director, France Participants
and their presentations Anne LALO (Fr),
Nice University, France Media coverage of the
AZF disaster a number of articles and major
players in the field Maureen de HOND (NL),
Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands Fireworks
disaster, portrayal of governmental authorities
risk communication policy. Margöt
KUTTSCHREUTER (NL), Universiteit Twente, the
Netherlands Fireworks disaster, portrayal of
journalist (NL), attached to ERC (to be asked).

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The relevance of these aspects will be
illustrated by the presentation of empirical data
on the media-reporting of the AZF-disaster in
Toulouse (Fr) and the Fireworks disaster in
Enschede (NL) and its impact on public opinion
and risk communication policy. Topics to be
addressed in the presentations are a number of
articles on the disaster over time (FR/NL),
frames used in the articles (NL), portrayal of
specific players in the field (FR/NL), impact of
the context of disaster on news reporting (FR),
impact of disaster on public opinion (FR), impact
of disaster and disaster reporting on
governmental risk and risk communication
policy(NL). These contributions will form the
starting point for a discussion on the future
agenda of thys type of research. Welcome to
debate.