Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning (Risk, Society and Policy Series)

by Asa Boholm (Editor), RagnarLofstedt (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $186.75

  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 volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities.