In 1979, provoked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, governors of states hosting disposal facilities for low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) refused to accept additional shipments

In 1979, provoked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, governors of states hosting disposal facilities for low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) refused to accept additional shipments. The resulting shortage of disposal sites for wastes spurred Congress to devolve responsibility for establishing new, geographically diffuse LLRW disposal sites to states and regional comp In 1979, provoked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, governors of states hosting disposal facilities for low-level radioactive waste (LLRW).

Daniel J. Sherman (P. Cornell University) is the Luce-funded Professor of Environmental Policy and Decision Making at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He also directs the university's Sound Policy Institute, which strives to facilitate innovative policy solutions to environmental problems in the South Puget Sound Region. Start reading Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

This article analyzes how social movements and collective actors can affect political and social transformation in a structurally violent society using the case study of Northern Ireland. We focus, in particular, on the crucial role played by collective actors within the loyalist community (those who want to maintain Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom) in bringing about social and.

Not Here Not There Not Anywhere Politics Social Movements and the Disposal of Low Level Radioactive. Cornell University) is the Luce-funded Professor of Environmental Policy and Decision Making at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington

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Sherman opens his book with a splendid history of the steps that produced this unique intergovernmental approach to waste management.

Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere: Politics, Social Movements, and the Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste. London: Earthscan/RFF Press. In the low-level waste case, this resulted in the passage of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (LLRWPA) in 1980 and a major legislative revision 5 years later. Sherman opens his book with a splendid history of the steps that produced this unique intergovernmental approach to waste management. After a series of scan-dals in existing waste facilities led to several closures, only three operational facilities remained in place.

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Sherman has written Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere: Politics, Social Movements, and the Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste with Resources for the Future Press. He is an award-winning teacher who seeks to engage his students directly in environmental decision-making contexts. Sherman has also written articles about and conducted workshops for faculty on the integration of sustainability across the curriculum. David R. Montgomery is a professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington.

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Sherman, Daniel J. Not here, not there, not anywhere: politics, social movements, and the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. Washington, RFF Press, 2011. 241 p. Bibliography: p. 217-233. Government publications. Committee on Improving Practices for Regulating and Managing Low-Activity Radioactive Waste. Improving the regulation and management of low-activity radioactive wastes. Washington, National Academies Press, c2006. 209 p. Includes bibliographical references.