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Author : Sue J. Lewis Lin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book An Integrated Approach for Analyzing Facility Siting Disputes written by Sue J. Lewis Lin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Moore West
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)
Download or read book An Integrated Approach to the Evaluation of Multiattributed Alternatives in Facility Siting Studies written by Thomas Moore West and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facility location studies involve the selection of a preferred course of action from an array of multiattributed alternatives. The factors affecting this selection are defined in both quantifiable and qualifiable terms. The former comprises primarily monetary or operational data, and the latter consists of nonmonetary and environmental parameters; where the term "environmental" encompasses all forms of ecological and societal influences at the proposed locations. Most current techniques developed for multiattributed analysis are strictly mathematical in nature and do not adequately consider the possible effect of subjective variables. Additionally, those procedures which do include techniques for evaluating subjective factors usually employ data in the form of point estimates and make no provisions for the incorporation of probabilistic variability. Recently increasing environmental concern and the high degree of uncertainty which currently exists in construction and operating cost estimates have limited the usefulness of models which are not designed to incorporate such factors. The intent of this paper is to present a detailed procedure to overcome the weaknesses of currently available comparison models. It does so by examining existing models and then developing a methodology based on extensions to the linear additive weighting model. Methods of obtaining relative factor importance are surveyed and weightings are obtained through the utilization of procedures based on the partial paired comparison technique. Significant improvements over conventional comparison models include the facility for evaluating subjective input through the application of utility or impact scaling functions. These functions are the bases for transforming probabilistic site-design performance estimates into relative impact measurements. Aggregate potential environmental impact profiles are next developed for each alternative by Monte Carlo simulation techniques. The resulting qualitative ratings are then combined with qualitative data by means of a relative importance ratio to obtain a single measure of an alternative's desirability. Finally, a method for determining the sensitivity of the selection procedure is illustrated through simulation. The development and discussion of the evaluation procedure is paralleled by an example problem based in part on data collected during siting studies for a large electrical generating facility. Examples of computer input data forms and simulation results are provided along with FORTRAN IV program listings.
Author : Sidney Hayden Lesbirel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781958452
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Managing Conflict in Facility Siting written by Sidney Hayden Lesbirel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book addresses a growing policy problem confronting all democratic nations. By exploring the lessons to be learned from international siting experiences, it will prove invaluable reading for academics, policymakers, government agencies, NGOs, and other societal interests involved in environmental and siting issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Asa Boholm
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849771308
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Facility Siting written by Asa Boholm and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2013 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities. Going beyond nimby-ism, experts in a variety of fields bring a multiperspective analysis from science, law and media to case studies from the UK, USA and Europe, and expose the political and cultural dimensions of siting conflicts. In the process they show how place attachment and notions of landscape and local identity play a prominent role in resistance to 'development'. Topics covered include the importance of context in siting controversies, siting methods and social representation, siting conflicts, the importance of institutional thinking in facility siting, risk, industrial encroachment and the sense of place, siting and sacred places, and law and fairness. This book is essential reading for academics in social sciences, policy, planning, law and risk; policy makers, planners and decision makers at all levels of government; business and industry, particularly energy generation, including nuclear and renewables, transportation and large dams; risk assessment professionals; and NGOs and activists.
Author : Garry Tim Wall
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Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (188 download)
Download or read book An Integrated Approach to Detailed Facility Analysis written by Garry Tim Wall and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fung Tung
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629964066
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Facility Siting in the AsiaPacific written by Fung Tung and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the management of conflicts arising from the siting of unwanted projects in the AsiaPacific, a region inadequately explored by the relevant literature. The work includes studies on a variety of locations, including Hong Kong, Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, and others. Contributions are drawn from several leading scholars intimately familiar with the locations under study, and employ theoretical, comparative, and policybased approaches to analysis of environmental conflict, risk management, and public participation. The editors also provide introductory and concluding sections in which the siting issues under discussion are summarized and contextualized. The result is a collection that serves as an invaluable aid and source of information for policymakers, environmentalists, and scholars of the AsiaPacific and elsewhere.
Author : Michael O'Hare
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Facility Siting and Public Opposition written by Michael O'Hare and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward A. Williams
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Siting of Major Facilities written by Edward A. Williams and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlo Carraro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400901291
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Operations Research and Environmental Management written by Carlo Carraro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activities of the Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei cover a broad spectrum of research topics, ranging from economics to engineering, from environmen tal management at the industry or regional level to basic mathematical model ling research. It is the combination of the activities on these last two topics that led the Fondazione to organise, with the University of Geneva, a work shop where operation research tools were designed with the aim to provide national and local policy makers with appropriate analytical and policy instru ments for environmental management. In the recent past, attention has often been devoted to global environmen tal issues in which the level of policy making is either international, through multi-country agreements on emission control, or national, when environ mental policies are designed to control domestic pollution. Many environ mental problems, however, have a local or regional dimension. Even when their dimension is global, e. g. in the case of the greenhouse gas effect, relevant decisions on emission control, such as the adoption of energy saving utilities, are taken at the local level. In many countries, the current legislation imposes the local authorities to prepare plans and adopt measures to control energy consumption or to reduce waste of natural resources. It is therefore important to analyze the way in which local or regional authorities optimise their environmental management.
Author : Craig Zelizer
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 081334509X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Integrated Peacebuilding written by Craig Zelizer and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how the theory and practice of integrated peacebuilding can be applied across diverse disciplines
Author : Constantine Zervos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489907300
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Risk Analysis written by Constantine Zervos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the series Advances in Risk Analysis consists of papers presented at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, which was held October 30 through November 2 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. The papers span the gamut of the increasing number of risk assessment topics addressed by the Society since it held its fIrst annual meeting in June 1981, also in Washington DC. Organized to promote interdisciplinary analyses, the Society approaches risks from three broad perspectives: (1) the impact of various risks on the health of the world's populations and on the environment; (2) the social and political implications of specifIc risks, and (3) the management and reduction of risks through the development of a risk analysis methodology and corresponding data bases. The papers included in this volume typify these three approaches and illustrate their interdependence. For example, both cancer and noncancer health risks are examined for a variety of situations that exist within society. The public's perception of risks and the correlation between that perception and the acceptance or nonacceptance of certain risks is also addressed. In addition, the progress to date on predicting and quantifying specifIc risks, including the risks associated with the construction and use of large engineered systems, is reported. Included among the papers are several dealing with recent current issues, such as the impact of California's Proposition 65, hazardous waste disposal, and chemical accidents.
Author : General Electric Company. Center for Advanced Studies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Study of Integration Issues to Realize OTEC Market Potential written by General Electric Company. Center for Advanced Studies and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David P. Lawrence
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118678737
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Impact Assessment written by David P. Lawrence and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers solutions and best practices to respond to recurrent problems and contemporary challenges in the field Since the publication of the first edition of Environmental Impact Assessment in 2003, both the practice and theory of impact assessment have changed substantially. Not only has the field been subject to a great deal of new regulations and guidelines, it has also evolved tremendously, with a greater emphasis on strategic environmental, sustainability, and human health impact assessments. Moreover, there is a greater call for impact assessments from a global perspective. This Second Edition, now titled Impact Assessment to reflect its broader scope and the breadth of these many changes, offers students and practitioners a current guide to today's impact assessment practice. Impact Assessment begins with an introduction and then a chapter reviewing conventional approaches to the field. Next, the book is organized around recurrent problems and contemporary challenges in impact assessment process design and management, enabling readers to quickly find the material they need to solve tough problems, including: How to make impact assessments more influential, rigorous, rational, substantive, practical, democratic, collaborative, ethical, and adaptive How each problem and challenge-reducing process would operate at the regulatory and applied levels How each problem can be approached for different impact assessment types—sustainability assessment, strategic environmental assessment, project-level EIA, social impact assessment, ecological impact assessment, and health impact assessment How to link and combine impact assessment processes to operate in situations with multiple overlapping problems, challenges, and impact assessment types How to connect and combine impact assessment processes Each chapter first addresses the topic with current theory and then demonstrates how that theory is applied, presenting requirements, guidelines, and best practices. Summaries at the end of each chapter provide a handy tool for structuring the design and evaluation of impact assessment processes and documents. Readers will find analyses and new case studies that address such issues as multi-jurisdictional impact assessment, climate change, cumulative effects assessment, follow-up, capacity building, interpreting significance, and the siting of major industrial and waste facilities. Reflecting current theory and standards of practice, Impact Assessment is appropriate for both students and practitioners in the field, enabling them to confidently respond to a myriad of new challenges in the field.
Author : Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Integrated Regional Approach to Regulating Energy Facility Siting written by Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sunil Kumar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9533074698
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Integrated Waste Management written by Sunil Kumar and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports research on policy and legal issues, anaerobic digestion of solid waste under processing aspects, industrial waste, application of GIS and LCA in waste management, and a couple of research papers relating to leachate and odour management.
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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Risk Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides citations and abstracts to the literature on risks arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment of the magnitude and probability of risk and the management of risk. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. Major areas of coverage include review articles, models and forecasting, technological risks, natural hazards, biological risks, environmental risks, medical and environmental health, economics and organization, industrial and labor, policy and planning, sociological factors, psychological aspects.
