Voluntary Procedures for Siting Noxious Facilities
Author : Howard Kunreuther
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Hazardous waste sites
ISBN :
Author : Howard Kunreuther
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Hazardous waste sites
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Author : Don Munton
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780878406258
This volume analyzes the politics of hazardous waste siting and explores promising new strategies for siting facilities. Existing approaches to waste siting facilities have almost entirely failed, across all industrialized countries, largely because of community or NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) opposition. This volume examines a new strategy, voluntary choice siting--a process requiring mutual decisions negotiated between facility developers and the host communities. This bottom-up approach preserves democratic rights, recognizes the importance of public perceptions, and addresses issues of equity. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of experts probes recent examples of waste facilities siting in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan. Both the successes and the failures presented offer practical insights into the siting process. The book includes an introductory review of the literature on facility siting and the NIMBY phenomenon as well as instructive essays on the use of voluntary processes in facilities siting. This book will be of value to policymakers, industry, and environmental groups, as well as to those working in environmental studies and engineering, political science, public health, geography, planning, and business economics.
Author : Paul R. Kleindorfer
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Michael R Greenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1351596896
Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It proposes a framework that integrates economic location analysis and risk analysis, emphasizing the reduction of uncertainty. This book begins by defining noxious facilities and considers the important role of manufacturing in the world economy, before going on to describe the historical practices used in locating these facilities for much of the twentieth century. It then shifts focus to analyze the complex set of considerations in the twenty-first century that mean that any facility that produces annoying smells and sounds, is unsightly and emits hazardous substances has had the bar of acceptability markedly raised for economic, environmental, social and political acceptability. Drawing on case study examples that highlight pollution prevention, choosing locations at major plants (CLAMP), negotiations, and surrendering control of an activity, Greenberg presents a hybrid framework that advocates the amalgamation of industrial location processes with human health and environmental-oriented risk analysis. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of location economics, environmental science, risk analysis and land-use planning. It will also be of great relevance to decision-makers and their major advisers who must make choices about siting noxious facilities.
Author : Benjamin Gaylord Maiden
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
ISBN :
Author : Fung Tung
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9629964066
This volume explores the management of conflicts arising from the siting of unwanted projects in the AsiaPacific, a region inadequately explored by the relevant literature. The work includes studies on a variety of locations, including Hong Kong, Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, and others. Contributions are drawn from several leading scholars intimately familiar with the locations under study, and employ theoretical, comparative, and policybased approaches to analysis of environmental conflict, risk management, and public participation. The editors also provide introductory and concluding sections in which the siting issues under discussion are summarized and contextualized. The result is a collection that serves as an invaluable aid and source of information for policymakers, environmentalists, and scholars of the AsiaPacific and elsewhere.
Author : Euston Quah
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Analyzing not-in-my-backyard siting problems from an economic perspective Quah (economics, National U. of Singapore) and Tan (business, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore) suggest economic methods for successful siting of non-hazardous facilities, including the compensation auction method. They discuss strategic bidding possibilities within the compensation auction method. They suggest that for hazardous facilities, more attention should be paid to mitigation efforts and other in-kind compensation methods. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gerald L. Ingalls
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Hazardous geographic environments
ISBN :
Author : D. Easterling
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9401106290
This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "authority" (e.g., Congress, a consortium of utilities) deems it in the best interest of society to build a facility such as an incinerator, but opponents living near the proposed site thwart the plan. Facility developers typically attribute local opposition to selfishness or radically inaccurate views of the risks posed by the facility. We examine the validity of these conclusions by looking in depth at the psychological response that arises when residents are faced with the prospect of living near waste disposal facilities. The particular siting dilemma considered in this book is the problem of how to "dispose" of the high-level nuclear wastes accumulating at nuclear power plants in the United States. These wastes, in the form of "spent" fuel rods, will emit dangerous levels of radioactivity for thousands of years - anywhere between 10,000 and 100,000 years, depending on the margin of safety one adopts. The current proposal is to encase the spent fuel in corrosion-resistant canisters and then to bury these canisters deep underground in a geologic repository. The two of us became involved with the high-level waste issue in 1986 as part of an interdisciplinary research team hired by the State of Nevada. The charge of this team was to estimate the socioeconomic impacts that would accompany a repository if it were built at Yucca Mountain, approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Author : Takashi Nakazawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351330527
Conflicts over waste disposal facility siting is a pressing issue not only in developed countries but also in fast-growing countries that face drastic waste increase and rapid urbanisation. How to address distributive justice has been one of the biggest concerns. This book examines what determines the influence of distributive justice in siting policy. In the 23 wards of Tokyo, one idea of distributive justice, known as "In-Ward Waste Disposal" (IWWD), emerged amid the ongoing garbage crisis in the early 1970s. IWWD was adopted as a significant principle, but its influence waxed and waned over time, until the idea was finally abandoned in 2003. To unravel causes and mechanisms behind the changing influence of IWWD, this book adopts a framework that considers not only ideational causes, but also the power struggles between rationally calculating actors, as well as the influence of external events and environments. By combining an in-depth case study with an integrative theoretical framework, this book tells a thought-provoking story of the changing influence of IWWD in a deep, comprehensive and consistent way. This book provides significant insights and lessons for both academics and practitioners.