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Siting Noxious Facilities - Integrating Location Economics and Risk Analysis to Protect Environmental Health and Investments (Hardcover)
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Siting Noxious Facilities - Integrating Location Economics and Risk Analysis to Protect Environmental Health and Investments (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Risk in Society
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Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and
criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management
facilities. It proposes a framework that integrates economic
location analysis and risk analysis, emphasizing the reduction of
uncertainty. This book begins by defining noxious facilities and
considers the important role of manufacturing in the world economy,
before going on to describe the historical practices used in
locating these facilities for much of the twentieth century. It
then shifts focus to analyze the complex set of considerations in
the twenty-first century that mean that any facility that produces
annoying smells and sounds, is unsightly and emits hazardous
substances has had the bar of acceptability markedly raised for
economic, environmental, social and political acceptability.
Drawing on case study examples that highlight pollution prevention,
choosing locations at major plants (CLAMP), negotiations, and
surrendering control of an activity, Greenberg presents a hybrid
framework that advocates the amalgamation of industrial location
processes with human health and environmental-oriented risk
analysis. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of location economics, environmental science, risk
analysis and land-use planning. It will also be of great relevance
to decision-makers and their major advisers who must make choices
about siting noxious facilities.
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