Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-223) and index

The importance of context in siting controversies : the case of high-level nuclear waste disposal in the US / Eugene A. Rosa and James F. Short -- Where does it go? : siting methods and social representations of radioactive waste management in France / Claire Mays -- Institutional thinking in siting conflicts : the case of Stripa Mine / Ylva Uggla -- Siting conflicts in renewable energy projects : a biogas case study / Jamil Khan -- The smell of money : minor risks and olfactory sensibilities (the anatomy of a protest) / Simone Abram -- Living with technological risk : industrial encroachment on sense of place / Peter Simmons and Gordon Walker -- Visualizing place and belonging : landscape redefined in a Swedish farming community / Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist -- Shifting risks : Hoover Dam bridge impacts on American Indian sacred landscapes / Richard W. Stoffle ... [et al.] -- The invention of a minority : a case from the Aragonese Pyrenees / Gaspar Mairal -- Schismogenesis in a Swedish case of railway planning / Per Binde and Åsa Boholm -- When complexity becomes a problem : 'law' and 'fairness' on separate tracks in Sweden / Ralph Heiefort