Whose backyard, whose risk : fear and fairness in toxic and nuclear waste siting /

Whose backyard, whose risk : fear and fairness in toxic and nuclear waste siting / Michael B. Gerrard.

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An environmental lawyer offers an analysis of practices that contribute to the failure of successful waste disposal and suggests alternative methods to tackle various forms of waste and effectively allocate land with a minimum of risk.

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Main Author: Gerrard, Michael, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Subjects:
Hazardous waste sites > Location > Government policy > United States.
Hazardous waste sites > Government policy > United States.
Hazardous waste sites > Government policy.
Hazardous waste sites > Location > Government policy.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage
  • The origins and disposal of nonradioactive wastes
  • The origins and disposal of radioactive wastes
  • How siting decisions are made
  • Evaluating the current siting processes
  • Prior proposals for reform
  • Consensual proposals
  • Coercive proposals
  • Avoidance proposals
  • A proposed solution: local control, state responsibility, national allocation
  • A description of the proposal
  • Evaluating the proposed siting process
  • Practicalities of implementatioN. epilogue: how a siting decision could be made.

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