The Waste and the Backyard

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-2

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2. Siting Waste Facilities: Drawing Lessons from Success Stories

   • Bruno Dente, Paolo Fareri

   Pages 3-46

3. Replacing Old for New: Lessons from a French Case Study

   • Corinne Larrue, Jean Marc Dziedzicki

   Pages 47-67

4. The Conflicts Engendered by Waste Facilities Siting: Lessons to be Learned from a Spanish Case

   • Susana Aguilar, Joan Subirats

   Pages 69-98

5. Role of a Scapegoat Needed!: The Siting of a Chemical Waste Incinerator in Lendava, Slovenia

   • Andrej Klemenc, Igor Lukšic

   Pages 99-115

6. Swiss Border Incident: A Case Study of the Ciba-Geigy Special Waste Incineration Plant in Basel, Switzerland

   • Urs Zuppinger, Peter Knoepfel

   Pages 117-159

7. Balancing the Stake. The Creation of the Centre for Industrial Waste Treatment in Modena (Italy)

   • Anna Luise, Paolo Fareri

   Pages 161-174

8. Any Objections after all? Decision Making on the Siting of a Domestic Waste Incinerator in Wijster, the Netherlands

   • Josee Ligteringen, Hans Bressers

   Pages 175-195

9. A Theoretical Framework for Case Study Analysis

   • Bruno Dente, Paolo Fareri, Josee Ligteringen

   Pages 197-223

10. Back Matter

    Pages 225-225

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Controversies concerning the siting of facilities for the disposal and treatment of hazardous but also domestic waste are widespread in all of the industrialized countries. The paradoxical situation of projects that are needed for environmental reasons and are opposed on environmental grounds has been addressed by scholars and by policy-makers searching for solutions. However, only in a few cases have waste disposal facilities actually been built and made operational.
The aim of the book (which illustrates the results of a research project financed by the EU-DGXII) is to investigate the decision-making processes for the siting and creation of waste facilities, in order to identify the factors for predicting success. Adopting a Public Policy Analysis approach the book presents six cases of successful decision-making on waste facilities siting in France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Slovenia, drawing lessons for the redefinition of public policy-making in the field of waste treatment.
The conclusions of this book are interesting for all fields of public policy where conflict is a relevant problem. This book is also of interest to scholars in the environmental field, as well as in public policy analysis, and to practitioners and (public or private) actors involved in environmental policy.

• Gender
• Policy
• conflict
• environment
• environmental policy
• waste disposal

`This fascinating book gives useful insights into what is an almost inevitable phenomenon (although people are beginning to take an interest in the `Yes In My Backyard' - YIMBY approach)..... the authors present a common theoretical framework for case study analysis which makes this book a useful contribution to policy planning.'
Warmer Bulletin vol:67

• Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale, Milano, Italy

  Bruno Dente, Paolo Fareri

• Center for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Josee Ligteringen

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