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Title

Slaying the NIMBY dragon / Herbert Inhaber.

Author

Inhaber, Herbert, 1941-

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c1998.

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Description

258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• According to Inhaber, a site auction works better than negotiation - the community handles it on their own, and when they are satisfied with a site they offer a bid. The hefty bonus would go to the first county that agrees to have a site built in their backyard. Psychological components of the NIMBY syndrome are also discussed - logical objections and why people think as they do about LULUs.
• In Slaying the NIMBY Dragon, Herbert Inhaber draws on the experience of many NIMBY cases. He discusses new approaches to overcoming NIMBY, such as the reverse Dutch auction. Reverse, because undesirable objects are being auctioned. This market approach holds promise for meeting the objections of potential neighbors of a LULU (Locally Unwanted Land Use) as well as society's need to get the facilities built.
• In the past few decades, finding sites for undesirable facilities, such as prisons and garbage landfills, has become ever more difficult. The difficulty lies not in tracking down technically suitable sites, but in the so-called NIMBY syndrome. People might agree that a facility is desperately needed just as long as it is Not In My Back Yard.
• Inhaber believes there is a way to assuage the fears of an affected community while simultaneously preserving the environment and the people. This book will be of interest to environmentalists, developers, policymakers, and those in the fields of waste industry, nuclear, and risk analysis.

Subject

• Land use > Environmental aspects > United States
• Land use > United States > Citizen participation
• NIMBY syndrome > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A NIMBY Overview: How it has Prevented the Establishment of Needed Facilities -- 2. A Personal Story: How I Went from Nerdism to Devising Siting Solutions -- 3. What Doesn't Work in Siting Unwanted Facilities -- 4. What Can Work -- The Reverse Dutch Auction Slays the NIMBY Dragon -- 5. What the NIMBY Literature Tells Us -- 6. Perception and Psychology of Unwelcome Guests -- 7. Economics of Auctions -- 8. Compensation and Its Relation to Auctions -- 9. Some Examples of How Dollars and the Environment Can be Compatible -- 10. The Rich and the Poor: Will an Auction System Discriminate against the Latter? -- 11. The Reverse Dutch Auction Offers an Exit from the Maze.

ISBN

1560002190 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^97015480^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library