Waste Location: Spatial Aspects of Waste Management, Hazards and Disposal

ISBN-13: 9781032145327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 271 str.

Michael Clark; Denis Fischbacher-Smith; Andrew Blowers

Opis

First published in 1992, Waste Location seeks to widen and integrate the debate on the intrinsically spatial nature of waste disposal. The case studies presented range from bin analysis through a Bayesian perspective on risk to the global politics of international waste streams.

Spis treści

List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors List of abbreviations 1. Paradise lost? Issues in the disposal of waste 2. Land reclamation through waste disposal 3. The use of rock, soil and secondary aggregates as landfill cover in South Wales 4. The use of special waste consignment note data in waste planning for the Greater London area 5. The development and application of geographical information systems in waste collection and disposal 6. Civic Amenity Waste Disposal Sites: the Cinderella of the waste disposal system 7. A Geographic Information systems approach to locating nuclear waste disposal sites 8. Heavy metals in soils and diabetes in Tyneside 9. Burning questions: incineration of wastes and implications for human health 10. Assessing the health effects of waste disposal sites: issues in risk analysis and some Bayesian conclusions 11. Licenced to dump? A report on British Coal’s sea dumping in Durham 12. Here today, there tomorrow: the politics of hazardous waste transport and disposal 13. Narrowing the options: the political geography of waste disposal Index

O autorze

Michael Clark, Denis Smith and Andrew Blowers