Facility siting : risk, power and identity in land use planning

From dams to landfill sites and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicting data, politics, perception and controversy for industry, planners and authorities and citizens.

This penetrating new edited collection 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 multi-perspective analysis to case studies from the UK, US 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'.