Weight and weightlessness
Administrative court efforts to weigh psycho-social impacts of proposed environmentally hazardous facilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21154022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael R Edelstein (0000-0003-2293-0674, Ramapo College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 195-203 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-5517 • E-ISSN: 1471-5465 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3152/147154603781766257 |
| OpenAlex | W2032788299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
This paper reviews the 25-year battle to have psychosocial impacts of contamination weighed in US administrative permit decisions. Despite the establishment of a professional literature and successful application in toxic torts, psychosocial (including psychological) impacts from the siting of hazardous environmental facilities have neither been reviewed substantively in environmental impact statements nor listed as an issue for adjudication in the issuance of permits by regulatory agencies. The reasons for this lag are explored through a detailed examination of key cases according to two sets of factors: personalistic versus environmental; and professional versus paradigmatic
Adjudication · Battle · Business · Environmental impact assessment · Environmental planning · Hazardous waste · Political science · Psychosocial · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Science · Law · Psychology · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Risk Perception and Management
Love Canal
Risk Society
Environmentalists, vanguard for a new society
Three Mile Island
Legal requirements for social impact assessment
Impacts of Hazardous Technology
Witnessing for Sociology
Psychosocial Effects of Hazardous Toxic Waste Disposal on Communities
Risk society
Sociology and compelled disclosure
The relative influence of individual identities, identity accumulation, and identity combinations on facets of psychological well-being
Technological accident, community class-action litigation, and scientific damage assessment
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |