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