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Cleaning up the mess : implementation strategies in Superfund / Thomas W. Church and Robert T. Nakamura.
Lippincott Library HC110.P55 C48 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Church, Thomas W., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hazardous wastes--United States--Management--Finance--Case studies.
- Hazardous wastes.
- Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages--United States--Cases.
- Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages.
- Hazardous waste sites--United States--Case studies.
- Hazardous waste sites.
- Pollution--United States--Case studies.
- Pollution.
- Hazardous wastes--Law and legislation--United States.
- Hazardous wastes--Law and legislation.
- Management.
- Finance.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, [1993]
- Summary:
- In this book, Thomas W. Church and Robert T. Nakamura provide the first in-depth study of Superfund operations at hazardous waste sites by examining six Superfund cleanups, including three regions and both 'hard' and 'easy' sites, to ask 'what works?'
- Contents:
- Part 1 Program Design
- Statutory Framework 4
- Competing Strategies for Superfund Implementation 8
- A Case Study Approach to Superfund 13
- 2. Superfund's Tool Kit 17
- Policy Tools 18
- Implementation Strategies in Superfund 21
- 3. Prosecution 43
- Regional Characteristics and Strategic Choices 43
- Laskin Poplar 47
- Cliffs Dow 59
- Assessing the Prosecution Strategy 64
- 4. Accommodation 67
- Regional Characteristics and Strategic Choices 67
- Tybouts Corner Landfill 71
- Harvey and Knott Drum 84
- Assessing the Accommodation Strategy 93
- 5. Public Works 95
- Regional Characteristics and Strategic Choices 96
- Lee's Lane Landfill 100
- Davis Farm 107
- Assessing the Public Works Strategy 112
- Part 3 Cleaning Up the Mess
- 6. What Works? 117
- Examining the Approaches 119
- Lessons 135
- 7. Ruminations on Reform 143
- The Complexity of Joint Action 146
- Superfund's Liability System 162
- Conclusion: Homilies from Superfund on "Making Privatization Work" 168.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815714149
- 0815714130
- OCLC:
- 26933356
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