| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-325) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hazardous waste sites -- Location -- Government policy -- United States.
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Hazardous waste sites -- Location -- Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Hazardous waste sites -- Location. |
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Hazardous waste sites -- Government policy -- United States.
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Hazardous waste sites -- Government policy. |
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Hazardous waste sites. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gerrard, Michael. Whose backyard, whose risk. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994 0262071606 (DLC) 94018925 (OCoLC)30545774 |
| ISBN |
058500272X (electronic book) |
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9780585002729 (electronic book) |
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9780262273695 (electronic book) |
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0262273691 (electronic book) |
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0262071606 |
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