Ecuador and the Chevron Case: Spinning Risk, Hazard and Reward

Juliet Pinto; Paola Prado; J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-47499-5_3

Ecuador and the Chevron Case: Spinning Risk, Hazard and Reward

Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz

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This chapter focuses on Ecuadorian press coverage of the Chevron legal case in Ecuador, which arose out of allegations that indigenous populations suffered health hazards from decades of living in lands contaminated by petroleum extractive activities. A case study of the nexus of news values and environmental and health risk and hazard, it offers an opportunity to better comparatively understand the mediated social construction of claims-making during one of the biggest environmental legal battles in the world. Legal arenas provide ground for study of disproportionate risks in terms of actors, responsibility and credibility, as claims are picked up by media and repeated over time. These iterations have significance for public engagement, agency and debate over issues associated with risks to environmental and human health.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	55-80
Number of pages	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47499-5_3
State	Published - 2017

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
ISSN (Print)	2634-6451
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-646X

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General Environmental Science
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