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, it is apparent that hazardous waste facilities fall into the class of "technological mysteries and value threats." This group contains the most dramatic controversies, involving the potential for disaster or possessing dread side effects that threaten social values. The debate in such controversies oscillates between factual disagreements and value disputes, receives widespread media coverage, and involves a broad spectrum of "stakeholders." In considering appropriate tools for resolution of this class of controversies, von Winterfeldt and Edwards conclude that compensation, bargaining, and negotiation will, because of the shifting debate and the presence of moral considerations, be less effective than for other controversies.
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The gains and losses associated with the siting of a nuclear service center in western New York included benefits for certain corporations, government institutions, and local residents; losses for others; and mixed balance sheets for still others (Figure 6~. This experience suggests that considerations relevant to impact distributions for hazard ous waste sites are: · The "special" impacts associated with the perceived risk and social conflict arising at hazardous waste sites may exceed the more "conventional" impacts customarily associated with locating large industrial facilities in rural communities.
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It can be argued, for example, that preferred distribu tions should promote aggregate utility for the nation, increase utility without making anyone worse off, place burdens upon those best able to bear them, avoid those who have borne past risks for society, or distribute goods and harms according to some principle of merit (a large list of candidate principles is available in Kasperson et al., 19831. In the case of hazardous waste siting, equalizing the distribution of harms and benefits may not tee achievable in any real sense.
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