Author: Paul R. KleindorferPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
A Compensation Mechanism for Siting Noxious Facilities
Author: Paul R. Kleindorfer˜Aœ compensation mechanism for sitting noxious facilities
Author: THE ROLE OF COMPENSATION FOR SITING NOXIOUS FACILITIES
Author: Managing Conflict in Facility Siting
Author: Sidney Hayden LesbirelPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781958452
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The book addresses a growing policy problem confronting all democratic nations. By exploring the lessons to be learned from international siting experiences, it will prove invaluable reading for academics, policymakers, government agencies, NGOs, and other societal interests involved in environmental and siting issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Optimal Siting and Sizing of a Noxious Facility
Author: Eduardo FerrazPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Providing a noxious facility poses two problems previously unexplored together: where to locate it and how large it should be. We propose a mechanism combining some market-like properties with a modified second-price auction. The mechanism selects a host, a facility size, and determines the compensation for hosting the project and how to split it among the non-hosts. To prevent size distortions, the host pays the second-highest bid and receives the market benefits. Truthful bidding is an equilibrium and leads to the globally optimal allocation, is globally optimal, even if communities' preferences are private information.
The Dilemma of Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository
Author: D. EasterlingPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401106290
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "authority" (e.g., Congress, a consortium of utilities) deems it in the best interest of society to build a facility such as an incinerator, but opponents living near the proposed site thwart the plan. Facility developers typically attribute local opposition to selfishness or radically inaccurate views of the risks posed by the facility. We examine the validity of these conclusions by looking in depth at the psychological response that arises when residents are faced with the prospect of living near waste disposal facilities. The particular siting dilemma considered in this book is the problem of how to "dispose" of the high-level nuclear wastes accumulating at nuclear power plants in the United States. These wastes, in the form of "spent" fuel rods, will emit dangerous levels of radioactivity for thousands of years - anywhere between 10,000 and 100,000 years, depending on the margin of safety one adopts. The current proposal is to encase the spent fuel in corrosion-resistant canisters and then to bury these canisters deep underground in a geologic repository. The two of us became involved with the high-level waste issue in 1986 as part of an interdisciplinary research team hired by the State of Nevada. The charge of this team was to estimate the socioeconomic impacts that would accompany a repository if it were built at Yucca Mountain, approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation, Volumes I, II and III
Author: Richard T. CarsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351881574
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1880
Book Description
There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities. This three volume set provides the key papers for understanding the historical development of contingent valuation, its theoretical and statistical foundations, and the major controversies. It also contains representative papers covering all of the major application areas in environmental valuation.
Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice
Author: Don MuntonPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878406258
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This volume analyzes the politics of hazardous waste siting and explores promising new strategies for siting facilities. Existing approaches to waste siting facilities have almost entirely failed, across all industrialized countries, largely because of community or NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) opposition. This volume examines a new strategy, voluntary choice siting--a process requiring mutual decisions negotiated between facility developers and the host communities. This bottom-up approach preserves democratic rights, recognizes the importance of public perceptions, and addresses issues of equity. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of experts probes recent examples of waste facilities siting in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan. Both the successes and the failures presented offer practical insights into the siting process. The book includes an introductory review of the literature on facility siting and the NIMBY phenomenon as well as instructive essays on the use of voluntary processes in facilities siting. This book will be of value to policymakers, industry, and environmental groups, as well as to those working in environmental studies and engineering, political science, public health, geography, planning, and business economics.
The Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Author: Johnstone NickPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264066136
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book builds upon existing literature to simultaneously examine disparities in the distribution of environmental impacts of environmental policy and in the distribution of financial effects among households.
Voluntary Procedures for Siting Noxious Facilities
Author: Howard KunreutherPublisher:
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Category : Hazardous waste sites
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description