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The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management - Institutional Regime Change and Actors' Mode of Participation in the Environmental Management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland (Hardcover, Korr. Nachdruck 2015)
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The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management - Institutional Regime Change and Actors' Mode of Participation in the Environmental Management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland (Hardcover, Korr. Nachdruck 2015)
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By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of
the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting
industrialized countries. The authors show that small and
prosperous Switzerland is no exception to the pervasive problem of
sites contamination, the legacy of past practices in waste
management having left some 38,000 contaminated sites throughout
the country. This book outlines the problem, offering evidence that
open and polycentric environmental decision-making that includes
civil society actors is valuable. They propose an understanding of
environmental management of contaminated sites as a political
process in which institutions frame interactions between strategic
actors pursuing sometimes conflicting interests. In the opening
chapter, the authors describe the influences of politics and the
power relationships between actors involved in decision-making in
contaminated sites management, which they term a "wicked problem."
Chapter Two offers a theoretical framework for understanding
institutions and the environmental management of contaminated
sites. The next five chapters present a detailed case study on
environmental management and contaminated sites in Switzerland,
focused on the Bonfol Chemical Landfill. The study and analysis
covers the establishment of the landfill under the first generation
of environmental regulations, its closure and early remediation
efforts, and the gambling on the remediation objectives, methods
and funding in the first decade of the 21st Century. The concluding
chapter discusses the question of whether the strength of
environmental regulations, and the type of interactions between
public, private, and civil society actors can explain the
environmental choices in contaminated sites management. Drawing
lessons from research, the authors debate the value of
institutional flexibility for dealing with environmental issues
such as contaminated sites.
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