Download or read book Community Resilience in the Case of the Cabot Koppers Superfund Site Cleanup Process in Gainesville FL written by Megan Elizabeth Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of disasters on communities may vary depending on community context and whether the disaster is technological or natural. This study explores how resilience develops in a community affected by a prolonged technological disaster. It examines whether resilience is an outcome or a process over time. The case examined is the Stephen Foster community in Gainesville, FL, the community most affected by the pollution at the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site. I used archival and interview data to identify events, processes, and commonly expressed ideas and feelings for the period 1983-2012. I developed a timeline of events and found three phases in the years after site establishment. I created a general model of the relationships between processes believed to affect resilience, based on the research literature. The model treats processes and the relationships to them as internal and external to the community. The nature of processes present varied over time, as did the effect of those processes on community resilience. Few processes were present in Phase 1 and all were external. Most processes in Phase 2 decreased resilience and there were few connections between internal and external processes. All hypothesized processes appeared, but most decreased resilience. I draw three main conclusions. First, resilience is a process that results in different outcomes over time. Second, not all of the processes hypothesized to increase resilience do so. Some decrease resilience. Third, processes internal and external to the community have equally important effects on resilience.
Download or read book Risk Communication written by Rebecca L. Burton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazardous waste sites, commonly known in the United States as Superfund sites, litter the country. These sites pose risks to the environment and human health alike, and it is the responsibility of a variety of agencies to communicate these risks to the communities affected. Because of organizational constraints and shaky beginnings to environmental legislation, the Superfund law has had many critics, including the residents of affected communities. This case study utilized in-depth interviews of communications officials and affected residents, as well as textual data to analyze the risk communication efforts of the agencies responsible for communicating the risk of a Superfund site in Gainesville, Fla. In addition, this study attempted to determine which audience constraints (hostility/outrage, mistrust of risk assessment, apathy, disagreement on the acceptable magnitude of risk, lack of faith in science and institutions) were present in the community and how they could've been mitigated. Results showed that risk communicators involved in educated and informed communities need to take special care in their methods, and new best practices and audience constraints not previously revealed in the literature are considered.
Download or read book Cabot Carbon Koppers Superfund Site Gainesville Alachua County Florida written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Jacksonville District and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feasibility Study written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region IV. and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Supplemental Feasibility Study written by TRC Environmental Solutions, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cleaning Up the Mess written by Thomas W. Church and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2001-05-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal Superfund program for cleaning up America's inactive toxic waste sites is noteworthy not only for its enormous cost - $15.2 billion has been authorized thus far - but also for its unique design. The legislation that created Superfund provided the Environmental Protection Agency with a diverse set of policy tools. Preeminent among them is a civil liability scheme that imposes responsibility for multimillion dollar cleanups on businesses and government units linked - even tangentially - to hazardous waste sites. Armed with this potent policy implement, the agency can order the parties who are legally responsible for the toxic substances at a site to clean it up, with large fines and damages for failure to comply. EPA can also offer conciliatory measures to bring about voluntary, privately financed cleanup; or it can launch a cleanup initially paid for by Superfund and later force the responsible parties to reimburse the government. In this book, Thomas W. Church and Robert T. Nakamura provide the first in-depth study of Superfund operations at hazardous waste sites. They examine six Superfund cleanups, including three regions and both 'hard' and 'easy' sites, to ask 'what works?' Based on detailed case studies, the book describes various strategies that have been applied by government regulators and lawyers and the responses to those different strategies by businesses and local government officials. The authors characterize the implementation strategies used by the EPA as prosecution, accommodation, and public works. They point out that the choice of strategy involves setting priorities among Superfund's competing objectives. They conclude that the best implementation strategy is one that considers the context of each site and the particular priorities in each case. Looking toward the reauthorization of Superfund, they also offer recommendations for improvements in the organization of the program and discuss proposals for change in its
Download or read book Cabot Koppers Superfund Site written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by Peter F. Guerrero and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superfund written by Lawrence J. Dyckman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coalition on Superfund Research Report Project IV the benefits and costs of Superfund cleanups an information assessment written by Center for Hazardous Waste Management (IIT Research Institute) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project III Development and testing of a methodology to identify the time cost and enforcement aspects of Superfund remediations written by Center for Hazardous Waste Management and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Superfund Cleanup Process written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean, and Water Protection and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
