Talking trash about landfills: Using quantitative scoring schemes in landfill siting processes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Miranda, ML; Miller, JN; Jacobs, TL
• 署名单位: Duke University; Duke University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1520-7109
• DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6688(200024)19:1<3::AID-PAM2>3.0.CO;2-1
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 3-22
• 关键词: nuclear waste repository; hazardous facilities; RISK

摘要

Policymakers and the public often turn to scientific experts for help in making decisions about complex policy? problems. Such decisions, however may involve tradeoffs among desired goals and so require considerable technical and political judgment. Typically there is no objectively best answer; although some answers may be better than others. MIC use a case study, of a landfill siting process in Orange County: North Carolina, to analyze how quantitative scoring schemes may best be used to facilitate sire selection processes. Quantitative scoring schemes, used and interpreted properly can help policymakers and the public focus their attention on central rather than peripheral issues, and thereby conduct a more informed political debate. For the quantitative scoring scheme to fulfill this role, however the community must be explicit about how the scoring scheme will be used within rite larger decisionmaking framework. Clarifying the power and limitations of quantitative scoring schemes shows promise for facilitating decisionmaking regarding other locally unpopular land we siting processes, as well as any public policy decision involving multiple objectives. (C) 2000 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.