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samt samhällsinstitutioner i stort tillfällig eller bestående? Vad innebär en förtroendeminskning för det fortsatta politiska arbetet såväl lokalt som nationellt? Vårt material räcker ingalunda till för att besvara dessa frågor, men mycket tyder på att det finns ett behov av att följa upp händelserna kring Hallandsåsen, och återvända till Bjäreborna, inte minst de sexton informanter som här kommit till tals. Ytterligare frågor som kunde vara relevanta att belysa är: Hur ser Bjäreborna på det inträffade om ett eller två år jämfört med idag? Kommer det inträffade att på sikt förändra deras levnadssätt, intresse för miljö, tilltro till teknik och utveckling samt samhällsengagemang? Kanske kan händelserna på Hallandsåsen stimulera kommuninnevånarna till ett mer aktivt deltagande i samhällslivet. Flera av intervjupersonerna framhöll att demonstrationen som genomfördes gav gehör ända upp till maktens korridorer i Stockholm. Demonstrationen upplevdes som meningsfull. Den typen av positiva upplevelser och erfarenheter behövs för att medborgarna ska känna att det är lönt även framgent att ta aktiv del i samhällslivet. 57
SUMMARY At the beginning of the 1990's, the government passed a resolution to build a tunnel through Halland ridge on the west coast of Sweden. The first construction company that attempted to build a tunnel there was forced to give up because the rock was too difficult to break. In 1996, the company Skanska took over the job of finishing the tunnel. There had been problems with the high ground water level in the ridge from the beginning of the project; water had literally spurted into the tunnel, making the work difficult. For this reason, permission was given to lower the ground water level. Furthermore, Skanska tried to seal the tunnel with the poisonous sealing agent RhocaGil. Up until the beginning of October 1997, large amounts of the sealing agent were sprayed into the tunnel and it leaked out into the ground water. On October 2, news of a poison scandal was released through the media. Work on the tunnel was stopped shortly thereafter, and has not yet been resumed. This study is one of four within a larger research project on the flow of information and communication between government authorities, the mass media and the citizens in connection with the events surrounding the building of the tunnel and subsequent poisoning of the drinking water. The research methodology used is qualitative and the study is based on interviews with 16 strategically selected Bjäre residents. The purpose of this study is to show how people can reason and react in crisis situations such as this one. The specific questions dealt with in the report are the following: • How have people reacted to the events at Halland ridge? • How have people viewed the various actors? • How have people interpreted the information they have received? • How is people's confidence in social institutions affected by a crisis? The differences in the reactions of the Bjäre residents are primarily dependent on the extent to which they have been affected or not affected, i.e., proximity to the threat has been of crucial importance for how events, actors and information have been interpreted/experienced. Anxiety and uncertainty were reported to be the dominant feelings among the residents after the first shock of the news about the poisoning had subsided. The experience of anxiety was not identical among the citizens, and a typology is presented in which the anxiety among different categories of people is analysed. Naturally, those affected have been more anxious than those not affected. Their need for information has also been greater and, thus, they have sought information more actively. However, some of those not affected have experienced and reacted to the incident as if they had been affected. These were by and large people who were quite involved in nature, environmental and social questions and those with a strong negative attitude toward the tunnel in general. Those citizens who were affected were more critical of the actors,their information and the management of information during the catastrophe period 58
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MILJÖHOT OCH MEDBORGARORO EN RAPPO
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Utgiven av Styrelsen för psykologi
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SPFs FÖRORD I det demokratiska sam
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FÖRFATTARNAS FÖRORD Denna studie
Page 9 and 10: Skanska. Mediernas bevakning fick p
Page 11 and 12: Hallandsåsprojektet i sin helhet (
Page 13 and 14: TEORETISKA BEGREPP I detta avsnitt
Page 15 and 16: I samband med att en störning upps
Page 17 and 18: Vår avsikt var aldrig att få ett
Page 19 and 20: till samhället och dess institutio
Page 21 and 22: Skumraskaffärer Massmediernas fram
Page 23 and 24: De som hade ringt för att tala med
Page 25 and 26: De drabbade vittnade om att de kän
Page 27 and 28: REAKTIONER PÅ NYHETEN Reaktionerna
Page 29 and 30: slutat att köpa vissa produkter fr
Page 31 and 32: Andra faktorer som inverkar på oro
Page 33 and 34: Jag kände nog egentligen aldrig n
Page 35 and 36: Känslornas drivkraft En viktig fr
Page 37 and 38: Det känns hemskt. De stod inte upp
Page 39 and 40: Man har ju fått känslan av att st
Page 41 and 42: Vad kommer att hända med oss? Efte
Page 43 and 44: informationen till sin egen situati
Page 45 and 46: eller grundvattensänkningen och in
Page 47 and 48: sig och undrade hur det egentligen
Page 49 and 50: aktörer hade ljugit hela tiden och
Page 51 and 52: AVKLINGNINGSPERIODEN Den fas i skee
Page 53 and 54: Även om tunnelarbetarna inlednings
Page 55 and 56: En tredje intervjuperson som tillh
Page 57 and 58: SAMMANFATTANDE KOMMENTARER Medborga
Page 59: Intervjupersonerna hade inget fört
Page 63 and 64: REFERENSER Arvidson, P (1998) "Åsj
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