Title: The fail-safe society : community defiance and the end of American technological optimism /
Authors: Piller, Charles.
Publisher: BasicBooks,
Year: 1991
Subjects: NIMBY syndrome United States.; Land use Government policy United States Citizen participation.; Science and state United States Citizen participation.; Technology and state United States Citizen participation.
Contents: Technological optimism gives way to fear and suspicion of modern science and industry -- Control over science and the evolution of public fears -- The rocky flats radiation war -- Ice-nine to ice-minus -- a battle over the new biology -- Biomedical research and the nightmare in Laurel Heights -- The far-reaching impact of Nimby activism -- Toward democratic decision making about science and technology.