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Title

  • Main Title Multiattribute utility analysis as a framework for public participation siting a hazardous waste facility

Creator

  • Author: Merkhofer, M.W.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Applied Decision Analysis, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  • Author: Conway, R.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  • Author: Anderson, R.G.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Sandia National Laboratories
    Place of Publication: Albuquerque, New Mexico
    Additional Info: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1996-05-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: How can the public play a role in decisions involving complicated scientific arguments? This paper describes a public participation exercise in which stakeholders used multiattribute utility analysis to select a site for a hazardous waste facility. Key to success was the ability to separate and address the two types of judgements inherent in environmental decisions: technical judgements on the likely consequences of alternative choices and value judgements on the importance or seriousness of those consequences. This enabled technical specialists to communicate the essential technical considerations and allowed stakeholders to establish the value judgements for the decision. Although rarely used in public participation, the multiattribute utility approach appears to provide a useful framework for the collaborative resolution of many complex environmental decision problems.
  • Physical Description: 8 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Sandia Laboratories
  • Keyword: Waste Management
  • Keyword: Remedial Action
  • Keyword: Site Selection
  • Keyword: Public Opinion
  • STI Subject Categories: 54 Environmental Sciences
  • Keyword: Hazardous Materials

Source

  • Conference: 1996 prioritization methodology workshop, Oakland, CA (United States), 14-15 May 1996

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE96008867
  • Report No.: SAND--96-0850C
  • Report No.: CONF-9605147--1
  • Grant Number: AC04-94AL85000
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 228517
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc673219

Note

  • Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE96008867
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