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Beyond NIMBY
Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States
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2010
Summary
The virtual inability to open new hazardous waste management facilities in Canada and the United States stems directly from a form of community opposition so common and vehement that it is commonly identified as a syndrome: Not In My Back Yard (or NIMBY). Whether such facilities are proposed by governmental agencies or by private waste management firms, communities are usually shocked to learn that they have been selected to host these facilities and take collective action to thwart them. Such actions have blocked many poorly planned facilities and stimulated greater interest in preventive, waste reduction strategies. They have also, however, thwarted the adoption of new waste management technologies and created serious geographic inequities in the distribution of waste management responsibility across the two nations. Beyond NIMBY examines positive alternatives to prevailing approaches to siting and the familiar NIMBY outcomes. In particular, it shows that certain siting strategies in Canadian provinces and American states have created successful siting agreements, broad public support, and comprehensive systems of waste management and prevention. These strategies include continuous public involvement in waste policy deliberations, a commitment to pursue siting only among communities that volunteer after extended democratic dialogue, and extensive packages of economic compensation and assurances of safe, long-term facility management. Equally important are guarantees that any new facility will be only part of a broader waste strategy for a particular province, state, or region and will not be allowed to become a magnet for wastes from areas that have not taken serious steps to address their own waste problems. The book concludes with the suggestion that these strategies can be applied to other NIMBY-blocked proposals, such as siting for prisons, drug and alcohol treatment centers, and nursing homes. "Rabe's book should contribute to the ongoing debate over hazardous waste facility siting. His lucid and convincing cases provide a meaningful starting point to push the level of debate beyond atheoretical anecdotes of success and failure."Publius
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-7307-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-0556-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
199
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Toward a Voluntary Approach to Facility Siting No access
The Pursuit of Cooperation No access
A Problem Shared No access
The Costs to Society of Siting Gridlock No access
Signs of Convergence No access
Factors Fostering Convergence No access
Market Approaches: The Limits of Compensation No access
Regulatory Approaches: The Limits of Preemption No access
The Common Nimby Outcome No access
Beyond the Nimby Syndrome in Alberta No access
Alberta and Its Waste Management Problem No access
System Performance No access
Manitoba: Alberta Redux No access
North Carolina: The Greensboro Exception amid Nimby Chaos No access
Minnesota: Voluntarism, Nimby, and a New Commitment to Prevention No access
California: Promise for Burden Sharing Undermined by Bureaucratic Objection No access
Quebec: Siting Success, Implementation Debacle No access
Early Stages of LLRW Management in Canada and the United States No access
The Evolution of Canadian LLRW Management No access
The Evolution of American LLRW Management No access
An Attempt at Voluntarism No access
Canada: The Virtues and Pitfalls of Pure Decentralization No access
The United States: The Mixed Record of Conjoint Federalism No access
