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100 1 a| Amidon, Timothy R.,d| 1979-e| author.;

245 10 a| Undermining risk and technical communication :b| extractive industry, cascading disaster, and the global climate crisis /c| Timothy R. Amidon, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Daniel P. Richards, and Donnie Johnson Sackey.;

264 1 a| Albany :b| State University of New York Press,c| [2026];

300 a| 1 online resource :b| illustrations, maps.;

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490 0 a| Suny series, studies in technical communication;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Timothy R. Amidon -- Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder -- Daniel P. Richards -- Donnie Johnson Sackey -- All -- Chapter One: Undermining Institutions of Risk -- The Scope and Scalability of Risk -- TPC and Risk -- Institutional Risk -- Reconfiguring Risk -- Undermining Technical Communication -- Chapter Descriptions -- Chapter Two: Many People Have Died So That Technical Communication Can Live: An Alternate History of Risk and Technical and Professional Communication;

505 0 a| Embedded with Risk: Technical Communication and Risk from Colonization through Industrialization (1500s to 1890s) -- Indebted to Risk: Technical Communication and Risk in American Universities (1890s to 1980) -- Divested from Risk: Technical Communication as a Research Field (1980 to 2010s) -- Implications: Confronting the History of Risk in TPC -- Chapter Three: Moving Beyond the Industrial Present in Risk Communication: Rethinking Models and Methodology -- The Field of Risk Communication -- History and Evolution of Risk Communication -- Models and Approaches in Industry -- Expanding Risk;

505 0 a| Scaling Theory -- Mapping Risk -- Implications for TPC Studying Risk -- Chapter Four: Riskscapes: The Bonita Peak Mining District and the Displacement of Native Americans in the San Juan Mountains -- Space, Scale, and Risk -- The Bonita Peak Mining District -- Respatializing Risk and the Bonita Peak Mining District -- Relocating Risk: Why Spatializing Risk Matters -- Spatializing Risk Through a Localized, Event-Driven Frame -- Spatializing Risk as a Component of Epideictic Rhetoric -- Spatializing Risk to Obscure the Role of Human Activity Within Crisis and Disasters;

505 0 a| Spatializing Risk Reveals Dispositions Toward Being-at-Risk Versus Feeling-at-Risk -- Quandaries with Localizing Risk: Implications Regarding Spatializing Risk -- Chapter Five: Timescapes amid a Water Crisis: The Enduring Legacy of the Law of the River Within the Colorado River Basin -- Time, Scope, and Risk -- Timescapes -- Kinship Time -- A Short History of the Colorado River Basin -- T he Law of the River: Shifting Risk in the Colorado River Basin -- Colorado River Compact and the Introduction of an Industrial Timescape;

505 0 a| Revealing the Embedded Complexity of Networks of Risk in the CRC and LoR -- Accounting for Risk as Temporally Emplaced and Embodied: Intergenerational Harm and the CRC -- Identifying How the CRC Shifted Risk over Time: The Pacific Flyway -- Implications with Risk Futures in the CRB -- Chapter Six: Contradictory Risk Flows: The Uinta Basin Railway Project and the East Palestine Train Derailment -- Energy and Contradictory Risk Flows -- Uinta Basin Energy Flows -- Contradictory Risk Flows and the Uinta Railway -- East Palestine, Ohio and Contradictory Risk Flows;

520 a| Changes the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.Technical and professional communication has a problem with how the concept of risk has been considered alongside extractive technologies.;

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650 0 a| Mineral industriesx| Moral and ethical aspects.;

650 0 a| Mineral industriesx| Risk assessment.;

650 0 a| Environmental risk assessment.;

650 0 a| Risk communication.;

650 0 a| Communication of technical information.;

650 0 a| Mineral industries.;

650 0 a| Risk.;

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700 1 a| Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut,d| 1979-e| author.;

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700 1 a| Sackey, Donnie Johnson,e| author.;

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Undermining risk and technical communication : extractive industry, cascading disaster, and the global climate crisis / Timothy R. Amidon, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Daniel P. Richards, and Donnie Johnson Sackey.

Author/creator	Amidon, Timothy R., 1979- author.
Other author	Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut, 1979- author.
Other author	Richards, Daniel P., author.
Other author	Sackey, Donnie Johnson, author.
Format	Electronic
Publication	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2026]
Description	1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Supplemental Content	JSTOR
Subjects	Mineral industries--Moral and ethical aspects. Mineral industries--Risk assessment. Environmental risk assessment. Risk communication. Communication of technical information. Mineral industries. Risk. Electronic books.

Physical medium	illustration
Physical medium	map
Series	Suny series, studies in technical communication
Contents	Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Timothy R. Amidon -- Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder -- Daniel P. Richards -- Donnie Johnson Sackey -- All -- Chapter One: Undermining Institutions of Risk -- The Scope and Scalability of Risk -- TPC and Risk -- Institutional Risk -- Reconfiguring Risk -- Undermining Technical Communication -- Chapter Descriptions -- Chapter Two: Many People Have Died So That Technical Communication Can Live: An Alternate History of Risk and Technical and Professional Communication
Contents	Embedded with Risk: Technical Communication and Risk from Colonization through Industrialization (1500s to 1890s) -- Indebted to Risk: Technical Communication and Risk in American Universities (1890s to 1980) -- Divested from Risk: Technical Communication as a Research Field (1980 to 2010s) -- Implications: Confronting the History of Risk in TPC -- Chapter Three: Moving Beyond the Industrial Present in Risk Communication: Rethinking Models and Methodology -- The Field of Risk Communication -- History and Evolution of Risk Communication -- Models and Approaches in Industry -- Expanding Risk
Contents	Scaling Theory -- Mapping Risk -- Implications for TPC Studying Risk -- Chapter Four: Riskscapes: The Bonita Peak Mining District and the Displacement of Native Americans in the San Juan Mountains -- Space, Scale, and Risk -- The Bonita Peak Mining District -- Respatializing Risk and the Bonita Peak Mining District -- Relocating Risk: Why Spatializing Risk Matters -- Spatializing Risk Through a Localized, Event-Driven Frame -- Spatializing Risk as a Component of Epideictic Rhetoric -- Spatializing Risk to Obscure the Role of Human Activity Within Crisis and Disasters
Contents	Spatializing Risk Reveals Dispositions Toward Being-at-Risk Versus Feeling-at-Risk -- Quandaries with Localizing Risk: Implications Regarding Spatializing Risk -- Chapter Five: Timescapes amid a Water Crisis: The Enduring Legacy of the Law of the River Within the Colorado River Basin -- Time, Scope, and Risk -- Timescapes -- Kinship Time -- A Short History of the Colorado River Basin -- T he Law of the River: Shifting Risk in the Colorado River Basin -- Colorado River Compact and the Introduction of an Industrial Timescape
Contents	Revealing the Embedded Complexity of Networks of Risk in the CRC and LoR -- Accounting for Risk as Temporally Emplaced and Embodied: Intergenerational Harm and the CRC -- Identifying How the CRC Shifted Risk over Time: The Pacific Flyway -- Implications with Risk Futures in the CRB -- Chapter Six: Contradictory Risk Flows: The Uinta Basin Railway Project and the East Palestine Train Derailment -- Energy and Contradictory Risk Flows -- Uinta Basin Energy Flows -- Contradictory Risk Flows and the Uinta Railway -- East Palestine, Ohio and Contradictory Risk Flows
Abstract	Changes the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.Technical and professional communication has a problem with how the concept of risk has been considered alongside extractive technologies.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2026).
Issued in other form	Print version: 9798855807417
Genre/form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9798855807448 electronic book
ISBN	hardcover
Standard identifier#	CIPO000380714
Stock number	22573/cats36532046 JSTOR

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