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

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Study Methodology Chapter 3 Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Waste-facility Siting in the Rural United States: Chapter 4 Demographic and Public Services Impacts Chapter 5 Social and Special Impacts of Waste-Facility Siting and Operation Chapter 6 Summary, Conclusion and Implications

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.

Summary

The storage of hazardous, chemical, and nuclear waste is one of the most intractable problems facing the United States. This text establishes the impacts of waste facilities for a range of rural communities that have experienced alternative stages of waste-facility siting and operation process.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Krannich, Richard S Krannich, Richard S. Krannich, Krannich Richard S., F. Larry Leistritz, Larry Leistritz, Larry F Leistritz, Larry F. Leistritz, Steven Murdock, Steven H. Murdock
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.1999
• EAN: 9780847691005
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9100-5
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; USA, NATURE / Natural Resources, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, United States of America, USA, Science / Environmental Science, Waste Management