Facility Siting by Asa Boholm
From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities. Going beyond nimby-ism, experts in a variety of fields bring a multiperspective analysis from science, law and media to case studies from the UK, USA and Europe, and expose the political and cultural dimensions of siting conflicts. In the process they show how place attachment and notions of landscape and local identity play a prominent role in resistance to 'development'.Topics covered include the importance of context in siting controversies, siting methods and social representation, siting conflicts, the importance of institutional thinking in facility siting, risk, industrial encroachment and the sense of place, siting and sacred places, and law and fairness.This book is essential reading for academics in social sciences, policy, planning, law and risk; policy makers, planners and decision makers at all levels of government; business and industry, particularly energy generation, including nuclear and renewables, transportation and large dams; risk assessment professionals; and NGOs and activists.-
The Perception of Risk
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The Feeling of Risk
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Risk Governance
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A Theory of Uncertainty
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Social Trust and the Management of Risk
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Trust in Cooperative Risk Management
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The Tolerability of Risk
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Trust in Risk Management
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Public Safety and Risk Assessment
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The Spatial Dimension of Risk
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Judgment and Decision Making
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Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication
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Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters
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Anthropology and Risk
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Risk Conundrums
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Risk Analysis and Human Behavior
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Hazards Vulnerability and Environmental Justice
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Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society
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Effective Risk Communication
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A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk
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Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society
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Siting Noxious Facilities
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Foresight in Action
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Transboundary Risk Governance
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Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication
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Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action
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Uncertainty and Risk
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Explaining Risk Analysis
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Risk Management in Post-Trust Societies
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Risk, Media and Stigma
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The Citizens at Risk
Asa Boholm is Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Public Administration, Goteborg University, Sweden.
Ragnar E Lofstedt is a Professor in Risk Management and the Director of the Centre for Risk Management, Department of Geography, School of Social Science and Public Policy, Kings College London, UK. He is a renowned expert on risk communication and regulation issues and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Risk Research and on the editorial board of Risk Analysis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138990876 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138990876 |
| Title | Facility Siting |
| Author | Asa Boholm |
| Series | Earthscan Risk In Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2016-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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