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The dilemma of siting a high-level nuclear waste depository
- Title
- The dilemma of siting a high-level nuclear waste depository / by Doug Easterling and Howard Kunreuther.
- Author
- Easterling, Douglas.
- Publication
- Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1995], ©1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Kunreuther, Howard.
- Description
- ix, 286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In the Dilemma of Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository, the authors examine siting conflicts from a variety of perspectives - political, psychological, and sociological - and identify the fundamental determinants of public opposition to waste-disposal facilities as a means of designing more effective approaches to solving the typical siting dilemma.
- In assessing the causes of public opposition, the book draws on various surveys of attitudes toward the repository as a function of predictors such as perceptions of risk, benefits and fairness.
- One of the primary conclusions is that the current impasse in the siting of a HLNW repository stems primarily from a lack of national consensus on the need for such a facility. The book also recommends the need for a "fair" siting process and the authors strongly favor a voluntary process to solve the siting dilemma. Finally, the book focuses on the problems associated with siting a HLNW repository by treating this case as a generic example of the more basic siting dilemma.
- The analysis of public opposition and the recommendations for successful siting can be generalized to almost any attempt to site a noxious facility.
- Series Statement
- Studies in risk and uncertainty
- Uniform Title
- Studies in risk and uncertainty.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-263) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Siting a High-Level Waste Repository -- 3. Siting a Monitored Retrievable (MRS) Storage Facility -- 4. Managing Local Opposition -- 5. Analysis of Public Opposition -- 6. Public Perceptions of the Proposed Repository -- 7. The Doughnut Effect -- 8. A Siting Process to Gain Public Acceptance -- 9. Analysis of U.S. Policy for Managing High-Level Waste -- 10. Next Steps for HLNW Policy.
- ISBN
- 0792394399 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 93045901
- OCLC
- 29549543
- ocm29549543
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries