Siting noxious facilities : integrating location economics and risk analysis to protect environmental health and investments / by Michael R Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Michael R, author.

Series:

Earthscan risk in society series.

Earthscan Risk in Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial ecology.

Factories--Location--Economic aspects.

Factories.

Factory and trade waste--Environmental aspects.

Factory and trade waste.

Industrial sites--Environmental aspects.

Industrial sites.

Environmental protection.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Summary:

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It proposes a framework that integrates economic location analysis and risk analysis, emphasizing the reduction of uncertainty.

Contents:

Industrial location theory and practice in the 20th century

Urbanization, industrialization, and noxious facilities

The growth and decline of noxious facilities in New Jersey

Locating noxious facilities in the early 21st century

Redefining factors for locating noxious facilities

Becoming less noxious

Concentrating locations at major plants (CLAMP)

Negotiating

Letting it go

Tools and coping with siting noxious facilities in the early 21st century

Tools

Coping with siting and non-siting options.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-59688-8

1-315-10403-2

1-351-59689-6

9781315104034

OCLC:

1031315266