Abstract
Failed attempts to find technical or political solutions to siting problems have provoked a profound change in the way siting procedures are structured. A first step was to introduce risk information programs as a means to improve the Defend Announce Defend approach. There is empirical evidence that information has a systematic effect on the way people form their risk perceptions and subsequently adjust behavior (Smith et al. 1990; Viscusi et al. 1987). Whether these processes strictly follow the expected utility model or can better be explained by taking framing effects and other anomalies into account is still an open question. The key role of information, however, is undisputed.
This research was supported by Swiss National Fund, grant no. 12-25581.88, undertaken jointly with Werner W. Pommerehne. We particularly wish to thank Reiner Eichenberger for helpful comments.
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Oberholzer-Gee, F., Frey, B.S. (1995). Voluntary Siting of Noxious Facilities: Additional Thoughts and Empirical Evidence. In: Renn, O., Webler, T., Wiedemann, P. (eds) Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation. Technology, Risk, and Society, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0131-8_17
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