Beyond NIMBY : hazardous waste siting in Canada and the United States.

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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, 1994Description: xvii, 199 pISBN:

0815773072
0815773080

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363.72870971

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Subject: Beyond NIMBY (Not in my backyard) examines positive alternatives to prevailing approaches to siting and the familiar NIMBY outcomes. In particular, it shows that certain siting strategies in Canadian provinces and American states have created successful siting agreements, broad public support, and comprehensive systems of waste management and prevention. These strategies include continuous public involvement in waste policy deliberations, a commitment to pursue siting only among communities that volunteer after extended democratic dialogue, and extensive packages of economic compensation and assurances of safe, long-term facility management. Equally important are guarantees that any new facility will be only part of a broader waste strategy for a particular province, state, or region and will not be allowed to become a magnet for wastes from areas that have not taken serious steps to address their own waste problems

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-194) and index

The Politics of Hazardous Waste Facility Siting; When Siting Does Not Work; The Alberta Case; Prospects for Replication; Low-Level Radio-active Waste; Toward a More Mature System

Beyond NIMBY (Not in my backyard) examines positive alternatives to prevailing approaches to siting and the familiar NIMBY outcomes. In particular, it shows that certain siting strategies in Canadian provinces and American states have created successful siting agreements, broad public support, and comprehensive systems of waste management and prevention. These strategies include continuous public involvement in waste policy deliberations, a commitment to pursue siting only among communities that volunteer after extended democratic dialogue, and extensive packages of economic compensation and assurances of safe, long-term facility management. Equally important are guarantees that any new facility will be only part of a broader waste strategy for a particular province, state, or region and will not be allowed to become a magnet for wastes from areas that have not taken serious steps to address their own waste problems

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