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Hazardous Waste Sites - The Credibility Gap (Hardcover)
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Hazardous Waste Sites - The Credibility Gap (Hardcover)
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Mutual distrust defines the relationship between those who are the
sources of hazardous wastes and those who oversee their activities.
A lack of credibility, argue the authors, is a formidable, if not
the biggest, obstacle to properly managing hazardous waste in the
United States. Nowhere is the credibility gap wider than where
there are hazardous waste management facilities or where sites have
been proposed. The purpose of this book is to provide comprehensive
perspectives on hazardous waste sites in the United States. The
sources of hazardous waste are described along with the scientific
and legal climates that allowed wastes to be discarded with little
attention to impacts. Evidence is weighed for and against public
health, as well as environmental, economic, and social damages at
abandoned sites. Political processes and analytical techniques are
suggested and illustrated for those who are involved in the siting
of new facilities. A strategy for hazardous waste management is
offered, together with approaches to substantially reduce the
difficulties faced by local planners and site managers who face a
hostile public. A historical legacy of mismanagement, fueled by
exaggeration of impacts and by a lack of information, characterizes
hazardous waste management in the United States. This book will be
important to planners, environmental scientists, and public health
officials. In order to assure accessibility for the casual reader,
the authors keep the explanation of mathematical methods and
technologies in this area to a minimum.
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