Public participation in siting resource recovery facilities; Lesson learned

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987 · Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA)

OSTI ID:5156237

Konheim, C S; Reiss, N M ^[1]; Hasselriis, F ^[2]

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1. Konheim Ketcham, Inc., Brooklyn, NY (US)
2. Gershman, Brickner and Bratton, Inc., Washington, DC (USA)

The authors discuss how it is rare that a resource recovery project can be sited anywhere without an active effort by project planners and their technical consultants to earn public trust in the method by which the site was chosen and in the evaluation of its effects on public health and the environment. Since air quality is so often the focus of public concern over a site or technology, and intuitive public reaction is often at odds with scientific findings, the air quality professional must be attentive to relating technical analyses to values of the affected community, building understanding of the assumptions and the process by which the evaluations are made, and communicating findings of any analysis in a manner which is meaningful to the public and their elected representatives.

• OSTI ID: 5156237
• Report Number(s): CONF-870695-; CODEN: PRAPA
• Journal Information: Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA), Vol. 1; Conference: 80. annual meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, New York, NY (USA), 21-26 Jun 1987; Other Information: Technical Paper 87-30.10; ISSN 0193-9688
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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