Hazardous Wastes in Rural America: Impacts, Implications, and Options for Rural Communities - Softcover

Murdock, Steven; Krannich, Richard S.; Leistritz, Larry F.

 
9780847691005: Hazardous Wastes in Rural America: Impacts, Implications, and Options for Rural Communities

Synopsis

The storage of hazardous, chemical, and nuclear wastes is one of the most intractable problems facing the United States. Based on the most comprehensive, multi-site, and multi-dimensional study completed to date on waste-facility siting and management in rural areas in the U.S., Hazardous Wastes in Rural America establishes the impacts of waste facilities for a range of rural communities that have experienced alternative stages of waste-facility siting and operation process. The work provides a comprehensive assessment of the impacts and dimensions of waste-facility siting and operation; examines the effects of waste-related projects on the labor force, business activity, and on public service costs and revenues; and investigates such key policy issues as the effects of community economic incentives, levels of community resident participation, and leader-resident differences, among others.

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About the Author

Steven Murdock is regents professor of rural sociology at Texas A&M University. Richard S. Krannich is professor of sociology at Utah State University. F. Larry Leistritz is distinguished professor of agricultural economics at North Dakota State University.

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