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Improving the Siting Process

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Risk Analysis and Decision Processes

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The descriptive material presented on the four case studies illustrates how different interested parties form strategies and present arguments to defend their positions regarding the siting of technological facilites. This chapter has a prescriptive flavor by focusing on ways to improve both the decision process and the resulting outcomes.

This chapter was written by Howard Kunreuther.

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  1. Decision Sciences Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Howard C. Kunreuther

  2. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361, Laxenburg, Austria

    Joanne Linnerooth, Hermann Atz & Michael Thompson

  3. 3 Embarcadero Center, 94111, San Francisco, CA, USA

    John Lathrop (Woodward Clyde Consultants)

  4. School of Geography, The University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    Sally Macgill

  5. Elin-Union AG für Elektrische Industrie, Penzingerstraße 76, A-1141, Wien, Austria

    Christoph Mandl

  6. Department of Social and Economic Studies, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Michiel Schwarz

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© 1983 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

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Kunreuther, H.C. et al. (1983). Improving the Siting Process. In: Risk Analysis and Decision Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82128-8_9

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