Voluntarism and its limits: Canada's search for radioactive waste-siting candidates

Canadian Public Administration

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-214

  Gunderson, William C ^a   Rabe, Barry G ^b  

^a CARTHAGE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0010946810     PISSN: 00084840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-7121.1999.tb01067.x     Document Type: Article

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2. Tim Ruhnke, North Renfrew Times, 27 September 1995, p. 1. There were 1,483 votes in favour of the proposal, 515 against, and 51 spoiled ballots.
3. Barry G. Rabe, Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1994); Don Munton, ed., Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice: Waste Facilities, NIMBY, and Volunteer Communities (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1996); Bruce A. Williams and Albert R. Matheny, Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Language of Social Regulation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995); Daniel Press, Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994); Michael B. Gerard, Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994).
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7. Barry G. Rabe, Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1994); Don Munton, ed., Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice: Waste Facilities, NIMBY, and Volunteer Communities (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1996); Bruce A. Williams and Albert R. Matheny, Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Language of Social Regulation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995); Daniel Press, Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994); Michael B. Gerard, Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994).
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18. Statement by Tom Lawson, as quoted in Ibid.
19. David Milne, Port Hope Evening Guide, 23 June 1995, p. 1.
20. David Milne, Port Hope Evening Guide, 27 June 1995, p. 4.
21. David Milne, Port Hope Evening Guide, 1 August 1995, p. 1.
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24. Rabe, Gunderson and Harbage, "Alternatives to NIMBY Gridlock," CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, p. 653.
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32. Ibid., p. 23.
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38. Rabe, Beyond NIMBY.
39. Barry G. Rabe, Jeremy Becker and Ross Levine, "Beyond Siting: Implementing Voluntary Waste Siting Agreements." Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan, June 1999.