Expanding the Scope and Scale of Risk in TPC: Water Access and the Colorado River Basin

Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder Oregon State University ; Timothy R. Amidon Colorado School of Public Health ; Donnie Johnson Sackey The University of Texas at Austin ; Daniel P. Richards Old Dominion University

Abstract

Building from a recent history of how technical and professional communication has addressed risk, we argue that the spatial and temporal frames through which the field has encountered risk must be confronted in working toward climate justice. We offer topoi that can be deployed to trace these interconnections and apply them to The Law of the River in the Colorado River Basin to illustrate how case studies can demonstrate the unequal distribution of climate risk.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2023-07-03
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10.1080/10572252.2023.2210194
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