Managing Conflict in Facility Siting

An International Comparison

Edited by S. Hayden Lesbirel, Associate Professor of Political Science, James Cook University, Australia and Daigee Shaw, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

The siting or development of risky facilities, such as nuclear power plants or waste repositories, remains an intractable policy problem for all democratic nations. In this valuable new book, the authors present a comparative study of various siting controversies in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. They argue that devising effective policies for dealing with siting conflicts will require social learning and changes in both institutional design and policy process.