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Contributors from social sciences, geography, and industry analyze the successes and failures of handing the dangerous residue of someone else's profit-making activities to communities in the US, Canada, Germany, and Japan. Recognizing the overall failure of previous policy, they offer a new strategy of voluntary siting, which involves mutual decisions negotiated between the facility developers and the host communities. All but one of the 12 studies were presented at a September 1993 workshop at the University of British Columbia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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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.
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