Download or read book Facility Siting and Public Opposition written by Michael O'Hare and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities written by David Morell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Difficulties Facing Waste to energy Conversion Plant Siting written by Cerrell Associates, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Siting of Hazardous Waste Management Facilities and Public Opposition written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Participation and Hazardous Waste Facility Siting written by Christopher Magorian and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Conflict in Facility Siting written by Sidney Hayden Lesbirel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book addresses a growing policy problem confronting all democratic nations. By exploring the lessons to be learned from international siting experiences, it will prove invaluable reading for academics, policymakers, government agencies, NGOs, and other societal interests involved in environmental and siting issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Sites for Our Solid Waste written by Michael J. Regan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Testing the Tanner Act written by Catherine McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice written by Don Munton and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Efficiency of Political Mechanisms for Siting Nuisance Facilities written by Carol Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public opposition often hinders the siting of nuisance and noxious facilities. However, there is often support for the siting plan within the community, especially when the facility will bring economic development or a compensation package funded by the company siting the facility. Why have opponents of these facilities been so effective compared to supporters? This paper presents evidence that opponents of siting proposals are much more likely to vote or engage in other collective action, while supporters are more likely to remain passive and not take action to advance their position. The results suggest that political mechanisms for determining host communities for facilities such as town meetings or referenda may not accurately represent the preferences of the community, and opportunities for siting may be missed.
Download or read book Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities written by Kent Portney and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-02-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s and 70s, a wave of environmental awareness has swept the United States. News reports of oil spills, DDT damage to wildlife, and the nuclear near-disaster at Three Mile Island have, along with other incidents, contributed to a widespread distrust of industry and a collective fear of all chemical processing facilities. This fear has been translated, according to Kent Portney, into local political opposition to the siting of much needed hazardous waste treatment plants--the NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome. The failure of federal, state, and local governments to effectively control improper hazardous waste disposal has further strengthened the NIMBY syndrome. Portney argues that once it is understood what motivates the array of local attitudes toward hazardous waste treatment facilities, and the political constraints placed on the search for solutions, effective compromises can be reached. The book begins by focusing on the facility siting dilemma and what can be done to find new policies that work. Chapter two analyzes what does and does not work in easing the effects of the NIMBY syndrome. Democratic political processes are investigated in chapter three, especially those that contribute to the development of NIMBY opposition. Chapters four and five present empirical correlates of changes in peoples' attitudes and explain how people can ultimately be convinced to support local hazardous waste treatment facilities. Social, cultural, and psychological construction of opposition to facility siting is studied in chapter six. Portney presents viable solutions to the facility siting problem, in light of the NIMBY syndrome, in the concluding chapter. This important book will be of great value to practitioners facing actual siting decisions, members of statewide siting boards, private sector parties wishing to site facilities, and those teaching courses in environmental policy or politics.
Download or read book Facility Siting written by Asa Boholm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation * Examines the social, political and environmental issues at stake and the acute conflicts over the siting of industrial facilities and infrastructure * Essential reading for all involved in land use planning and facility siting at all levels and in all situations * New in the Risk, Society and Policy Series From dams to landfill sites and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicting data, politics, perception and controversy for industry, planners and authorities and citizens. This penetrating new edited collection examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities. Going beyond nimby-ism, experts in a variety of fields bring a multi-perspective analysis to case studies from the UK, US and Europe and expose the political and cultural dimensions of siting conflicts. In the process they show how place attachment and notions of landscape and local identity play a prominent role in resistance to 'development'.
Download or read book Siting of Hazardous Waste Disposal Facilities in Texas written by Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Hazardous Waste Disposal Policy Research Project and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dilemma of Siting a High Level Nuclear Waste Repository written by D. Easterling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-05-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Individual and Community Response to Energy Facility Siting written by Christopher Cluett and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contentious Politics in Liquefied Natural Gas Facility Siting written by Hilary Schaffer Boudet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The siting of locally unwanted land uses (LULUs) -- hazardous waste facilities, landfills, prisons, power plants, etc. -- has proved to be a difficult task. Recent attempts to site liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the U.S. have been no exception. These terminals receive LNG produced overseas and regasify it for distribution. Since 2000, more than 50 such terminals have been proposed but only five are currently operational. Like most LULU siting efforts, LNG proposals have drawn attention -- and sparked protest -- from local citizens. The siting of an LNG terminal presents many issues around which a community can mobilize. As a result, attempts to site these facilities create an ideal laboratory for better understanding the factors and processes that drive variations in community mobilization efforts in the context of LULUs. Why do some communities respond quickly and forcefully to a siting announcement, while others remain passive? Why do some community groups turn to more disruptive activities, such as protests and demonstrations, while others rely on more familiar forms of political participation, such as public hearings and letter writing? Using theories from the study of facility siting and social movements, I explore these issues through two in-depth studies of attempts to site LNG facilities in California. I then test the findings from the two in-depth case studies with eleven additional case studies of randomly selected LNG proposals around the country. These additional case studies include a review of relevant newspaper articles, regulatory documentation and five to ten interviews in each field site. Findings from these cases indicate five different types of community response: acceptance, local opposition, administrative opposition, unexpected opposition and well-resourced opposition. My analysis also suggests that high resource communities mobilize regardless of threat or opportunity. However, for low to medium resource communities, higher levels of threat and political opportunity matter for mobilization. Finally, the results show that mobilization is sufficient but not necessary for project failure. This work provides important insights both for researchers on facility siting -- in terms of the importance of combinations of key causal factors -- and for planners embroiled in such conflicts -- in terms of key policy levers affecting mobilization outcomes.
Download or read book Siting Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities written by Mary R. English and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-06-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many lament the difficulty of siting hazardous waste facilities that are intended to benefit the public at large but are locally unwanted. Many label local opposition as purely self-interested; as simply a function of the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) syndrome. Drawing upon the experience of states trying to site new low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities, Mary English argues that we need to think harder and look deeper, to understand--and, possibly, solve--the siting dilemma. The 1980 Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act ushered in a new era in low-level radioactive waste disposal; one of vastly increased state responsibility. By a 1985 amendment, states were given until January 1993 to develop a new system of disposal facilities. English reviews the progress they have made, focusing on one difficulty: that of finding technically and socially acceptable sites. She then turns to issues concerning authority, trust, risk, and justice that help to shape the siting dilemma. This book is made highly readable by vivid examples drawn from recent efforts to site low-level waste disposal facilities. The volume will be a helpful resource to those in the public and private sectors who are immediately concerned with the siting of radioactive waste disposal facilities, hazardous waste facilities, solid waste landfills, incinerators, etc., as well as social scientists who are studying this problem.
