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- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 282 pages) :) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- This volume addresses the management of conflicts that involve the siting of unwanted projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Contributors are renowned scholars in environmental policy and write from actual experience with the region, employing theoretical, comparative, and policy-based approaches to an analysis of environmental conflict, risk management, and public participation. The collection therefore will function as an invaluable resource for policymakers, environmentalists, and scholars of the Asia-Pacific and elsewhere.
- Uniform Title
- Facility Siting in the Asia-Pacific (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction / Tung Fung and Kin-che Lam -- Facility siting : the theory-practice nexus / S. Hayden Lesbirel -- Procedures for dealing with transboundary risks in siting noxious facilities / Howard Kunreuther -- LULUs, NIMBYs, and environmental justice / Bruce Mitchell -- Are casinos NIMBYs? / Euston Quah and Raymond Toh Yude -- Power to the people! : civil society and divisive facilities / Daniel P. Aldrich -- Site selection of LULU facilities : the experience of Taiwan / Chang-tay Chiou -- Challenges of managing NIMBYism in Hong Kong / Kin-che Lam, Wai-ying Lee, Tung Fung, and Lai-yan Woo -- Community-driven regulation, social cohesion, and landfill opposition in Vietnam / Nguyen Quang Tuan and Virginia Maclaren -- Reassessing the voluntary facility-siting process for a hazardous waste facility in Alberta, Canada 15 years later / Jamie Baxter -- Structural model of risk perception on landfill site for municipal solid waste / Kaoru Ishizaka, Yasuhiro Matsui, and Masaru Tanaka -- Compensation in siting hazardous facilities : a radioactive waste repository in Taiwan / Daigee Shaw and Te-hsiu Huang -- NIMBY : environmental civic society and social fairness in China / Yang Yan -- Conclusion / S. Hayden Lesbirel.
- OCLC
- ssj0001339465
- Title
Facility Siting in the Asia-Pacific [electronic resource] : Perspectives on Knowledge Production and Application / edited by Tung Fung, S. Hayden Lesbirel, and Kin-che Lam.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Hong Kong [China] : Chinese University Press, [2011] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Lam, Kin-che.
Lesbirel, S. Hayden (Sidney Hayden), 1957-
Fung, Tung.
Project Muse.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9629964066 9789629964061