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Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste
Dunlap
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Description for Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste
Paperback. Editor(s): Dunlap, Riley E.; Kraft, Michael E.; Rosa, Eugene A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12figs.92tabs. BIC Classification: JPQB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Nuclear waste is going nowhere, and neither is the debate over its disposal. The problem, growing every day, has proven intractable, with policymakers on one side, armed with daunting technical data, and the public on the other, declaring: not in my backyard. This timely volume offers a look past our present impasse into the nature and roots of public viewpoints on nuclear waste disposal.
A much-needed supplement to the largely technical literature on this problem, the book provides extensive studies of the reaction of citizens--whether rural or urban, near-site residents or prospective visitors--to proposed nuclear waste sites around the nation, ... Read more
Nuclear waste is going nowhere, and neither is the debate over its disposal. The problem, growing every day, has proven intractable, with policymakers on one side, armed with daunting technical data, and the public on the other, declaring: not in my backyard. This timely volume offers a look past our present impasse into the nature and roots of public viewpoints on nuclear waste disposal.
A much-needed supplement to the largely technical literature on this problem, the book provides extensive studies of the reaction of citizens--whether rural or urban, near-site residents or prospective visitors--to proposed nuclear waste sites around the nation, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822313731
SKU
V9780822313731
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About Dunlap
Riley Dunlap is Professor of Sociology and Rural Sociology at Washington State University. Michael E. Kraft is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Eugene A. Rosa is Professor of Sociology at Washington State University.
Reviews for Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste
"Outstanding. This book, which includes some of the most important recent studies of public opinion on nuclear waste, could be extremely important in the nuclear waste debate."—Leroy C. Gould, Florida State University "This book is unique in providing the most intensive and extensive empirical study of public opinion relating specifically to two proposed waste sites. It pulls together in one ... Read more