Content Analysis Tools Applied to the Speech on Economic Growth and Sustainability - Building Materials and the Asbestos Issue

Abstract:

This work proposes and appreciates the use of content analysis techniques on dilemmas involving economic growth and environmental sustainability. To achieve this purpose, uses the asbestos issue, through the exam of specialists’ communications in a public audience on the Federal Supreme Court, in which the unconstitutionality of the State law that forbids the utilization of this material. The specialists who were called by the Supreme Court are divided between those who admit the possibility of its safe use and the ones who preach its ban and their speeches are studied based on the differences between the different kinds of asbestos, serpentine and amphibole. Additionally, are considered the social costs of its maintenance in terms of health and social security and the costs involved in its substitution in terms of job positions, income and derivative products’ prices. The content analytical techniques proved adequate to the evaluation of speeches and communications between currents with distinct positioning in terms of sustainability and development.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 865)
• Pages: 667-671
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.865.667
• Online since: June 2017
• Authors: Luiz Antonio Coelho Lopes*, LUIZ ANTONIO Salles
• Keywords: Asbestos, Building Materials, Chrysotile, Content Analysis, Sustainability

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