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Hazardous decisions: Hazardous waste siting in the UK, The Netherlands and Canada - Institutions and discourses

Author
Huitema D.
Date
2003
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-074247)
Publisher | Place of publication
Springer | New York, NY, USA
ISBN
1-4020-0969-0
Pages
520 p.
Document type
Serial/multi-volume work
Language
English
Field of application
International
Country/Territory
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Hazardous waste Waste disposal
Abstract

Contents: 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 benefits of judical 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 nine cases 8. Summary and conclusion