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The demand for siting new hazardous waste disposal facilities has grown nationally during the past decade while opposition to these facilities has also increased. At the heart of this controversy is the issue of risk. The meaning of risk in this context is subject to various interpretations. The task of resolving these controversies has been left to the states. This paper discusses the problem of defining risk in the context of hazardous waste facility siting regulations, and proposes a method of research for analyzing the process by which risk is defined and the implications of this process for organizational learning.
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Trauth, J.M. (1987). Information Utilization in the Formulation of Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Regulations: A Method of Research for Organizational Learning. In: Lave, L.B. (eds) Risk Assessment and Management. Advances in Risk Analysis, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6443-7_37
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