Psychosocial effects of hazardous toxic waste disposal on communities.

Includes bibliographies and indexes

The role of risk assessment and communication in community responses to hazardous waste management projects / Michael William Mullen -- The effects of prenatal environmental toxin exposure (dioxin) / Alice A. Rahill -- Perception of risk and toxic hazards / William Hallman and Abraham Wandersman -- Community responses to exposure to hazardous wastes / Kurt Finterbusch -- Toxic waste disposal sites as technological disasters / Duane A. Gill and J. Stephen Picou -- Cargoism and technology and the relationship of these concepts to important issues such as toxic waste disposal siting / William R. Catton -- Communicating risk in the mass media / Allan Mazur -- Community preparedness for hazardous waste emergencies / Charles E. Faupel and Conner Bailey -- Psychosocial impacts on trial / Michael R. Edelstein -- Characteristics of citizen groups which emerge with respect to hazardous waste sites / E.L. Quarantelli -- Public acceptability of alternative hzazardous waste management services / Rae Zimmerman -- The return of the repressed -- Freudian theory, hazardous waste siting, and public resistance / Richard Walker -- The technological world view and environmental planning / John W. Walker