How Long to Read Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities

How Long Does it Take to Read Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities by Kent Portney

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Since the 1960s and 70s, a wave of environmental awareness has swept the United States. News reports of oil spills, DDT damage to wildlife, and the nuclear near-disaster at Three Mile Island have, along with other incidents, contributed to a widespread distrust of industry and a collective fear of all chemical processing facilities. This fear has been translated, according to Kent Portney, into local political opposition to the siting of much needed hazardous waste treatment plants--the NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome. The failure of federal, state, and local governments to effectively control improper hazardous waste disposal has further strengthened the NIMBY syndrome. Portney argues that once it is understood what motivates the array of local attitudes toward hazardous waste treatment facilities, and the political constraints placed on the search for solutions, effective compromises can be reached. The book begins by focusing on the facility siting dilemma and what can be done to find new policies that work. Chapter two analyzes what does and does not work in easing the effects of the NIMBY syndrome. Democratic political processes are investigated in chapter three, especially those that contribute to the development of NIMBY opposition. Chapters four and five present empirical correlates of changes in peoples' attitudes and explain how people can ultimately be convinced to support local hazardous waste treatment facilities. Social, cultural, and psychological construction of opposition to facility siting is studied in chapter six. Portney presents viable solutions to the facility siting problem, in light of the NIMBY syndrome, in the concluding chapter. This important book will be of great value to practitioners facing actual siting decisions, members of statewide siting boards, private sector parties wishing to site facilities, and those teaching courses in environmental policy or politics.

How long is Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities?

Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities by Kent Portney is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities aloud.

What Reading Level is Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities?

Siting Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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