La santé environnementale : un autre regard sur le risque ou comment le savoir profane s’invite dans l’évaluation du risque

Abstract

Regarding chronic exposures, time durably blurs the causal link and plays against the victims. There is often a lag period between exposure and the appearance of the first symptoms. Victims rely on the discovery of a cluster and take the risk assessment by creating a community of interests. This lay knowledge from local knowledge alongside official expertise disrupts the risk analysis process. But more than an opposition, it is a circulation between several methodologies because the objective is not to substitute for scientific expertise but to raise a risk not taken into account or neglected by the public authorities.

Keywords

• lay knowledge
• environmental health
• expertise
• risk