Siting Environmentally Unwanted Facilities
Subtitle: Risks, Trade-Offs and Choices
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781858987101
Subjects: Environmental economics; Pollution & threats to the environment; Business & Economics; Environmental Studies; Business/Economics; Environmental Science; General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; International - General; Environmental aspects; Land use; Location; NIMBY syndrome; Public utilities
Description: This book deals with the question of location of hazardous and non-hazardous facilities that no one wants -- "not-in-my-backyard" (the NIMBY syndrome).