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Hazardous waste siting and democratic choice

Title
Hazardous waste siting and democratic choice / edited by Don Munton.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©1996.

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Additional Authors
Munton, Don.
Description
ix, 406 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
American governance and public policy
Uniform Title
American governance and public policy
Subject
  • Hazardous waste sites > Location > Political aspects > Congresses
  • Hazardous waste sites > Location > Citizen participation > Congresses
  • NIMBY syndrome > Congresses
  • Hazardous waste sites > Location > Citizen participation
  • Hazardous waste sites > Location > Political aspects
  • NIMBY syndrome
  • Sonderabfalldeponie
  • Standortplanung
  • Umweltpolitik
  • Bürgerbeteiligung
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Based on revised versions of papers presented to a workshop at the University of British Columbia in September 1993.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The NIMBY phenomenon and approaches to faciliy siting / Don Munby -- Voluntary siting of hazardous waste facilities in Western Canada / Geoffrey Castle, Don Munton -- Alternatives to NIMBY gridlock: voluntary approaches to radioactive waste facility siting in Canada and the United States / Barry G. Rabe, William C. Gunderson, Peter T. Harbage -- Democratic dialogue and acceptable risks: the politics of high-level nuclear waste disposal in the Unite States / Michael E. Kraft -- Hazardous waste management and facility siting in California / David Morell -- Siting hazardous waste facilities, Japanese style / Don Munton -- Siting hazardous waste incinerators in Germany: from political imposition to public involvement? / Robert Seeliger -- Community risk perception and waste management in three communities at different stages in the siting process / Clyde Hertzman, Aleck Ostry -- Worrying about waste: diagnosis and prescription / Susan J. Elliott, S. Martin Taylor -- Using co-management to build community support for waste facilities / Alun Richards -- Voluntary procedures for siting noxious facilities: lotteries, auctions, and benefit sharing / Howard Kunreuther -- Directions for engineering contributions to successfully siting hazardous waste facilities / Christopher Zeiss.
ISBN
  • 0878406255
  • 9780878406258
LCCN
97198764
OCLC
  • ocm36722798
  • 36722798
  • SCSB-2133959
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library