Place Making, Hazardous Waste, And The Development Of Tooele County, Utah

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4492071
AutoresJ Matthew Shumway (0000-0002-8362-557X), Richard H Jackson (0000-0001-6801-2495)
Año2008
Volumen98
Número4
Páginas433-455
Fecha de publicación2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2008.tb00311.x
OpenAlexW2171197116
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas23

Declining populations, aging inhabitants and infrastructure, limited economic opportunities, and under‐ or unappreciated natural environments characterize a number of rural communities in the western United States. Faced with the challenges of providing for their residents, some of these communities have chosen to permit undesirable land‐use activities, including the disposal of hazardous or nuclear waste. Central to the development of such sites is how a place is perceived and portrayed. Our purpose in this article is to examine how a dominant perception and portrayal of one such place—Tooele County, Utah—was created and used to facilitate the development of hazardous‐waste‐disposal sites. We use the geographical concept of “place” to illustrate how meanings and values are attached to a region in order to justify its becoming what it is and how such views persist

Appalachia · Archaeology · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Geography · Hazardous waste · Municipal solid waste · Natural (archaeology · Waste management · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy