Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities
Author | : David Morell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Morell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : U S Environmental Protection Agency |
Publisher | : BiblioGov |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781295274239 |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Author | : Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Hazardous Waste Disposal Policy Research Project |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Hazardous substances |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael O'Hare |
Publisher | : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Don Munton |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : 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 | : Christopher Magorian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Chemical industry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael R. Greenberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351516159 |
Mutual distrust defines the relationship between those who are the sources of hazardous wastes and those who oversee their activities. A lack of credibility, argue the authors, is a formidable, if not the biggest, obstacle to properly managing hazardous waste in the United States. Nowhere is the credibility gap wider than where there are hazardous waste management facilities or where sites have been proposed.The purpose of this book is to provide comprehensive perspectives on hazardous waste sites in the United States. The sources of hazardous waste are described along with the scientific and legal climates that allowed wastes to be discarded with little attention to impacts. Evidence is weighed for and against public health, as well as environmental, economic, and social damages at abandoned sites. Political processes and analytical techniques are suggested and illustrated for those who are involved in the siting of new facilities. A strategy for hazardous waste management is offered, together with approaches to substantially reduce the difficulties faced by local planners and site managers who face a hostile public.A historical legacy of mismanagement, fueled by exaggeration of impacts and by a lack of information, characterizes hazardous waste management in the United States. This book will be important to planners, environmental scientists, and public health officials. In order to assure accessibility for the casual reader, the authors keep the explanation of mathematical methods and technologies in this area to a minimum.
Author | : Cerrell Associates, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Waste disposal sites |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kent Portney |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1991-02-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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.