Stakeholders and Scientists Achieving Implementable Solutions to Ene
Science and Stakeholders provides a conceptual framework for stakeholder involvement, followed by case studies to explore how to integrate and collaborate among diverse stakeholders and communities to solve environmental and energy-related problems.
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Joanna Burger Editor
Stakeholders and Scientists Achieving Implementable Solutions to Energy and Environmental Issues
Editor Joanna Burger Division of Life Sciences Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) and Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-8812-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-8813-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8813-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011933225 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For all the people in resource agencies, regulatory agencies, tribes, industries, and stakeholders who strive to solve our energy and environmental problems. May we leave future generations with a balanced and sustainable environment, and may we learn to incorporate the concerns, views, and science of all people in making better environmental decisions Joanna Burger, 18 January 2011
Foreword
Too often, discussion of energy focuses on the short-term costs, which is of primary concern to developers, investors, and politicians. The long-term costs associated with health effects of pollution and safety of facilities is often of more concern to neighbors living on the fenceline of these facilities, who are more likely to bear those costs. At the same time, the decision making that goes into approving facilities that produce the most damaging health effects often does not involve members of these affected communities. This is most true in environmental justice communities, those communities that are largely of low-income people or people of color and who live with disproportionate levels of environmental pollution when compared to the general population. Bringing community groups together early may help to circumvent problems fenceline communities face. It helps identify major issues at play in a community, in particular to identify the sensitivities and situation which cause concern. Secondly, early engagement is a smart way to gauge community support for blocking or advancing changes in the local environment. Communities brought into the decisionmaking process early are often more willing to negotiate
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