Fairness and Siting

Annotated subindex to a symposium published in Risk

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer & Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Introduction to IIASA Fairness and Siting Symposium --- Notes that, while there is no recipe for successful siting, critical ingredients are identified in that symposium issue.... 7.95

Benjamin Davy, Fairness as Compassion: Towards a Less Unfair Facility Siting Policy --- Argues that siting efforts fail because of perceived injustices and urges authorities to search more aggressively for ways to avoid injustice and to cope with the anguish of those who may be unavoidably shortchanged..... 7.99

Howard Kunreuther, Paul Slovic & Donald MacGregor, Risk Perception and Trust: Challenges for Facility Siting --- Attributes siting failures to, e.g., the erosion of trust in government and industry and to the closely-linked public perceptions of the risks of toxic and nuclear waste.... 7.109

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer & Kevin B. Fitzgerald, Conflicting Views on Fair Siting Processes: Evidence from Austria and the U.S. --- Maintains that, by granting legitimacy to different notions of fairness and building on common values such as responsibility, it is possible to design siting procedures that promote social cohesion, trust and a sense of fair play.... 7.119

Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Fairness across Borders: The Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant --- Discusses the escalation of a controversy between Denmark and Sweden over nuclear reactors at Barsebäck in southern Sweden; also discusses research that might lead to possible solutions.... 7.135

Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler & Hans Kastenholz, Procedural and Substantive Fairness in Landfill Siting: A Swiss Case Study --- Describes the design and implementation of a process for landfill siting seen as an application of procedural equity expressed in discourse ethic philosophy -- one that includes checks to competence and substantive fairness.... 7.145

Michael Thompson, Unsiteability: What Should It Tell Us? --- Argues that if rich countries can effortlessly be rid of noxious wastes, they will not receive signals encouraging better lines of development -- by market, as well as hierarchical and egalitarian, criteria.... 7.169

Anna Vari, Public Perceptions about Equity and Fairness: Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities in the U.S. and Hungary --- Recommends, e.g., that main actors' views about criteria for processes and outcomes be explored and that agreement be negotiated before a siting process is planned.... 7.181

Risk Articles Index

Modified 11/16/96 tgf
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