ABSTRACT
R. Mary English's book concentrates on one of the main sources of Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) controversy, low-level waste (LLW) from nuclear power plants and medical procedures. Barry Rabe, a professor of health politics at the University of Michigan, has produced one of the best books on the politics of waste siting. Given all the failures in hazardous waste siting, Rabe spends much space on one of the few successes, Swan Hills in Alberta. As well, while most books on NIMBY published in the United States concentrate almost exclusively on American problems, Daniel Mazmanian, at Claremont Graduate College, and David Morell, president of a consulting firm in Oakland, California, wrote one of the major articles on NIMBY. Professor Robert Bullard attempts to formulate an "environmental justice framework," presumably to develop a better siting system than now exists. Some of Professor Bullard's points about environmental injustice were incorporated in a new Georgia law, passed in the spring of 1995.
