SITE FIGHTS . C ONTENTS List of Tables and Figures vii Preface ix Abbreviations xv Introduction: Site Fights and Policy Tools 1 1 Picking Sites 26 2 A Logic of Tool Choice 50 3 Occasional Turbulence: Airport Siting...

While a large literature exists on the siting of controversial facilities, few theories about spatial location have been tested on large samples. Using a new dataset from Japan, this paper demonstrates that state agencies choose localities judged weakest in local civil society as host...

Much research has implied that social capital functions as an unqualified “public good,” enhancing governance, economic performance, and quality of life (Coleman 1988; Cohen and Arato 1992; Putnam 1993; Cohen and Rogers 1995). Scholars of disaster (Nakagawa and Shaw 2004; Adger et al. 2005; Dynes 2005; Tatsuki...