Entre gouvernance, démocratie et changement d’échelles : La régulation publique de la téléphonie mobile en Belgique

Public policies on mobile phones are confronted to a dilemma. On one hand, a scientific controversy flourishes. There is no general agreement among experts about the effects of electromagnetic fields exposure on human health. On the other hand, there is a wide social consensus about the usefulness of mobile phones. But when a base station is to be settled, citizens living nearby often protest against it (the well-known NIMBY effect; see Jobert 1998 ; Marchetti 2005 ), they generally focus more on the electromagnetic fields exposure created by base stations (Crivellari 2006) than on the aesthet... Mehr ...