Facility Siting

by Boholm, Asa; Lofstedt, Ragnar

• ISBN13: 9781844071463
• ISBN10: 1844071464
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

* Examines the social, political and environmental issues at stake and the acute conflicts over the siting of industrial facilities and infrastructure * Essential reading for all involved in land use planning and facility siting at all levels and in all situations * New in the Risk, Society and Policy Series From dams to landfill sites and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicting data, politics, perception and controversy for industry, planners and authorities and citizens. This penetrating new edited collection 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 multi-perspective analysis to case studies from the UK, US 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'.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	viii
List of Contributors	x
Preface	xi
Introduction	xii
Asa Boholm
Ragnar E Lofstedt
The Importance of Context in Siting Controversies: The Case of High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal in the US	1	(20)
Eugene A Rosa
James F Short
Where Does it Go? Siting Methods and Social Representations of Radioactive Waste Management in France	21	(23)
Claire Mays
Institutional Thinking in Siting Conflicts: The Case of Stripa Mine	44	(12)
Ylva Uggla
Siting Conflicts in Renewable Energy Projects: A Biogas Case Study	56	(17)
Jamil Khan
The Smell of Money: Minor Risks and Olfactory Sensibilities (Anatomy of a Protest)	73	(17)
Simone Abram
Living with Technological Risk: Industrial Encroachment on Sense of Place	90	(17)
Peter Simmons
Gordon Walker
Visualizing Place and Belonging: Landscape Redefined in a Swedish Farming Community	107	(20)
Annelie Sjolander-Lindqvist
Shifting Risks: Hoover Dam Bridge Impacts on American Indian Sacred Landscapes	127	(17)
Richard W Stoffle
M Nieves Zedeno
Amy Eisenberg
Rebecca Toupal
Alex Carroll
The Invention of a Minority: A Case from the Aragonese Pyrenees	144	(16)
Gaspar Mairal
Schismogenesis in a Swedish Case of Railway Planning	160	(17)
Per Binde
Asa Boholm
When Complexity Becomes a Problem: `Law' and `Fairness' on Separate Tracks in Sweden	177	(12)
Ralph Heiefort
Notes	189	(11)
References	200	(24)
Index	224