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Hazardous waste policy, community movements and the politics of Nimby: participatory risk assessment in the USA and Canada

In: Greening Environmental Policy

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  • Frank Fischer

    (Rutgers University)

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During the late 1970s and 1980s news reports of oil spills, nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, near-disasters at Three-Mile Island, pesticides in the food chain and DDT damage to wildlife have frightened people around the world (Piller, 1991). The result has been a widespread distrust of industry and a collective fear of all chemical-processing facilities. As the public has become increasingly aware of the extent to which chemicals now pollute the environment, the result has been a new anxiety often described as ‘chemophobia’. Polls show that citizens are more concerned about the presence of toxic wastes than any other environmental problem, even though the Environmental Protection Agency maintains that it is not the most severe health threat. Problems such as the ozone hole and the greenhouse effect are said to be much riskier. Such public fear is seen by many experts and commentators to be irrational.

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  • Frank Fischer, 1995. "Hazardous waste policy, community movements and the politics of Nimby: participatory risk assessment in the USA and Canada," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank Fischer & Michael Black (ed.), Greening Environmental Policy, chapter 10, pages 165-182, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-08357-9_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-08357-9_10
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    1. G. Pignataro & G. Prarolo, 2012. "One more in my backyard? Insights from the 2011 Italian nuclear referendum," Working Papers wp837, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
    2. Brendan Joseph Quirke, 1996. "Leasing The Environment," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 4(2), pages 98-102.

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