Understanding your audience
- PECOS Management Services, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
It is generally accepted that environmental restoration and waste management issues are complex, involving numerous scientific and engineering elements. It is also (or should be) the goal of the entities responsible for performing or regulating environmental restoration and waste management to provide the stakeholders with presentations that are tailored to their level of understanding of the overall issues and the scientific, engineering, and technical elements encompassed by that issue. For example, a regulatory document such as a permit should be understandable at one level by the general public but also clearly describe the details relating to the permitted activity to the technical disciplines responsible for implementation and overview. This paper will present some guidelines for developing and presenting the technical aspects of environmental restoration and waste management issues to a variety of audiences and provide examples of effective and ineffective presentations. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, 1628 E. Southern Avenue, Suite 9 - 332, Tempe, AZ 85282 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21317012
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--09-WM-07013
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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