Hazardous decisions : hazardous waste siting in the UK, the Netherlands and Canada : institutions and discourses
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Hazardous decisions : hazardous waste siting in the UK, the Netherlands and Canada : institutions and discourses
(Environment & policy, v. 34)
Kluwer Academic, c2002
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  Aomori
  Iwate
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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where Jeremy Richardson, Albert Weale and Hugh Ward were excellent hosts at the Department of Government and Thomas Christiansen a very good roommate. Having included the UK as a country where decision processes were far less participatory (and thus 'worse' in my own view) than those in the Netherlands, I started doing my first interviews there, which were mainly intended to identify suitable case studies for research. But then I read a highly critical review of a book that had a similar topic as my study. The critique was that cases of hazardous waste siting cannot adequately be studied without understanding their national context. This made me decide to devote some attention to the legal context of hazardous waste siting in the three countries of interest (which is of course only a part of the national context) and its development through the years. The study of the UK system of environmental regulation and land use planning was not a simple issue, and I was warned various times (for instance by Andrew Blowers at the Open University) that the legislation was highly complex and easily misinterpreted. I felt personally touched by such warnings and decided that I should perhaps approach the UK system a bit less as an evil empire and maybe be a bit more 'objective' in my appraisals.
Table of Contents
Foreword: of bullets and churches.- 1: Hercules, Leviathan or Promotheus?- 2. Knowledge, competition, or dialogue? Institutional variations and their relation to discourse on facility siting.- 3. Hazardous decisions. The problems of hazardous waste, institutional responses and the ideas underlying them.- 4. The UK: Political control with the benefits of judicial authority?- 5. The Netherlands: participation through the court system.- 6. Canada: Community-based siting.- 7. Comparison of case studies. Institutions, discourses, actors, and decision quality in the nine cases.- 8. Summary and conclusion.- References.- Appendix 1: List of Interviewees.- Appendix 2: Explanation of case selection.- About the author.
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