Beyond the Nimby Syndrome in Hazardous Waste Facility Siting
The Albertan Breakthrough and the Prospects For Cooperation in Canada and the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6264479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry G Rabe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 184-206 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0491.1991.tb00010.x |
| OpenAlex | W2086882975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 18 |
The prospects for agreements in the siting of hazardous waste facilities in Canada and the United States would appear bleak given the repeated failures of the past decade. A variety of provincial and state siting approaches have been attempted, only to be thwarted regularly by local opposition. The most far–reaching exceptional case involves the siting of a comprehensive hazardous waste disposal facility in Alberta, Canada in the mid‐1980s. The Alberta approach to siting differed markedly from those of other provinces and states and in many respects met the conditions necessary for policy cooperation specified by the maturing institutionalist and game theoretic literatures on this topic. The Alberta siting agreement has already demonstrated shortcomings in the implementation phase and may not be easily transplanted to other subnational units of government. Nonetheless, it suggests that the Not‐In‐My‐Back‐Yard Syndrome so familiar in hazardous waste facility siting need not be an inevitability and that careful attention to key aspects of siting policy may facilitate cooperation
Business · Civil engineering · Environmental planning · Government (linguistics · Hazardous waste · NIMBY · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Waste management · Yard · Engineering · Environmental Science · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Law · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Risk Perception and Management
Democracy and Expertise
How do incentives influence local public support for the siting of shale gas projects in China
Waste facility experience and perceptions of waste-related health and safety risks
Entanglement of Interests and Motives
Citizen participation and the democratization of policy expertise
Alternatives to Nimby gridlock
Social Movements and the Policy Process
Tragic Choices and Collective Decision-Making
Implementation and the Irony of Delegation
The Low‐Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process in Connecticut
The un-politics of air pollution
Prairie capitalism
Taming the Bureaucracy
Cooperation under Anarchy
Cross-Media Environmental Regulatory Integration
Collective Action
Prairie Politics and Society
Between Europe and America, Ottawa and the Provinces
State Capitalism
State of the environment
The Potential of the Theory of Compensation for Mitigating Public Opposition to Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Siting
The Cooperative Resolution of Policy Conflict
Institutional Structure and the Logic of Ongoing Collective Action
Policy Making in Congressional Committees
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2019 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |