From dams to landfill sites; and power plants to radioactive waste repositories; the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry; planners; authorities; NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk; power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities. Going beyond nimby-ism; experts in a variety of fields bring a multiperspective analysis from science; law and media to case studies from the UK; USA and Europe; and expose the political and cultural dimensions of siting conflicts. In the process they show how place attachment and notions of landscape and local identity play a prominent role in resistance to development. Topics covered include the importance of context in siting controversies; siting methods and social representation; siting conflicts; the importance of institutional thinking in facility siting; risk; industrial encroachment and the sense of place; siting and sacred places; and law and fairness. This book is essential reading for academics in social sciences; policy; planning; law and risk; policy makers; planners and decision makers at all levels of government; business and industry; particularly energy generation; including nuclear and renewables; transportation and large dams; risk assessment professionals; and NGOs and activists.
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