Coping with Risk: The Case of Gas Facilities in Scotland

D J Snowball and S M Macgill

Environment and Planning C, 1984, vol. 2, issue 3, 343-360

Abstract: Aspects of the publicly acknowledged assessment of risk in siting-decisions in Scotland for potentially hazardous North Sea gas processing-installations are considered. Safety issues were of concern to the respective local authority councils and planning departments, the Health and Safety Executive, the developers seeking planning permission, and, in various instances, port authorities, Secretaries of State, and public-interest groups. The assessment of potential risk to the public by each of these main agencies is analysed and evaluated, illustrating key features from a decade which has seen significant changes in the art of risk assessment in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world, and related, though rather more modest, changes in practice.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1068/c020343

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