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Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tung Fung and Kin-che Lam 2 Facility Siting: The Theory-Practice Nexus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 S. Hayden Lesbirel 3 Procedures for Dealing with Transboundary Risks in Siting Noxious Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Howard Kunreuther 4 LULUs, NIMBYs, and Environmental Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Bruce Mitchell 5 Are Casinos NIMBYs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Euston Quah and Raymond Toh Yude 6 Power to the People! Civil Society and Divisive Facilities . . . . . . . . 115 Daniel P. Aldrich 7 Site Selection of LULU Facilities: The Experience of Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chang-tay Chiou 8 Challenges of Managing NIMBYism in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Kin-che Lam, Wai-ying Lee, Tung Fung, and Lai-yan Woo Facility_final2207.indd 7 22/07/2011 5:32 PM viii | Contents 9 Community-Driven Regulation, Social Cohesion, and Landfill Opposition in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Nguyen Quang Tuan and Virginia Maclaren 10 Reassessing the Voluntary Facility-Siting Process for a Hazardous Waste Facility in Alberta, Canada 15 Years Later . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Jamie Baxter 11 Structural Model of Risk Perception on Landfill Site for Municipal Solid Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Kaoru Ishizaka, Yasuhiro Matsui, and Masaru Tanaka 12 Compensation in Siting Hazardous Facilities: A Radioactive Waste Repository in Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Daigee Shaw and Te-hsiu Huang 13 NIMBY: Environmental Civic Society and Social Fairness in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Yang Yan 14 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 S. Hayden Lesbirel Facility_final2207.indd 8 22/07/2011 5:32 PM ...

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