Cost-benefit analysis plays a significant role in the process of siting hazardous waste facilities throughout the United States. Controversy regarding definitively disparate, albeit unintentional, racist practices in reaching these siting decisions abounds, yet cost-benefit analysis stands incapable of commenting on normative topics. This thesis traces the developments of both cost-benefit analysis and its normative cousin utilitarianism by focusing on the impacts they have had on the contemporary environmental justice discourse and highlighting valid claims, misunderstandings, and sedimented ideas surrounding the popularity of cost-benefit analysis. This analysis ultimately leads to an alternative means of realizing environmental justice that both acknowledges the need for greater democratic interactions and attempts to work with, rather than against, the prevailing paradigm of reaching siting decisions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc33215 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Wohlmuth, Erik Michael |
| Contributors | Figueroa, Robert M., Kaplan, David M., Klaver, Irene J. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 92 p., Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Wohlmuth, Erik Michael, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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