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Planning for the management of nuclear wastes -- whatever their
level of radioactivity -- is one of the most important
environmental problems for all societies that produce utility,
industrial, medical, or other radioactive waste products. Attemps
to site low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Western
industrial societies, however, have repeatedly engendered conflicts
between governments, encountered vehement opposition on the part of
local citizen groups, and given rise to overt hostilities among
involved parties. LLRW Disposal Facility Siting is the result of a
study designed to learn more about the causes underlying failed and
successful efforts to site LLRW disposal facilities. The study is
based on case histories of LLRW disposal facility siting processes
in six countries. Siting processes in five states within the United
States and in five additional countries are analyzed using
information obtained from public documents and supplemented by
interviews with key participants. The selected states and countries
are major generators of LLRW and each has made efforts to establish
LLRW disposal facilities during the past decade. They vary widely
in the approaches they have adopted to LLRW management, the
institutional structures developed for managing the siting process,
the means used to involve stakeholders and technical experts in the
facility siting process and the amount and type of data used in
making decisions. The analysis of these case histories provides
general lessons about the advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and
weaknesses of the various approaches that have been attempted or
implemented. LLRW Disposal Facility Siting provides valuable data
for academics and researchers working in the area of environmental
management.
Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the
media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating
environmental impacts of the intensive and careless
industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is
known, however, about the social, political and institutional
background of environmental risk management which led to the
present situation, as well as about recent changes. Environment and
Democratic Transition: Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern
Europe provides an overview of the mechanism of policy making, the
role of the scientific community, the environmental movements, and
the public in risk controversies in Central and Eastern Europe from
the 1970s until 1991. The book brings together studies by leading
social scientists from the East and the West who investigate the
economic, legal, institutional, behavioral, social and political
aspects of environmental policy. In addition to analyzing past
histories, most contributions focus also on challenges, pitfalls
and dilemmas that the region's policy makers and environmentalists
must face during the period of transition and into the future.
Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the
media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating
environmental impacts of the intensive and careless
industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is
known, however, about the social, political and institutional
background of environmental risk management which led to the
present situation, as well as about recent changes. Environment and
Democratic Transition: Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern
Europe provides an overview of the mechanism of policy making, the
role of the scientific community, the environmental movements, and
the public in risk controversies in Central and Eastern Europe from
the 1970s until 1991. The book brings together studies by leading
social scientists from the East and the West who investigate the
economic, legal, institutional, behavioral, social and political
aspects of environmental policy. In addition to analyzing past
histories, most contributions focus also on challenges, pitfalls
and dilemmas that the region's policy makers and environmentalists
must face during the period of transition and into the future.
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