Title: Distance and dissolution: geographic patterns of support for and opposition to dredging the Hudson River

Authors: Lawrence A. McGlinn

Addresses: SUNY - New Paltz, USA

Abstract: Federal law mandates a period of public comment on major environmental policy decisions. All comments, including the address of the commenter, are filed in a publicly available database. Such information is natural for geographic analysis, particularly in the case of the Hudson River Superfund site where perceived costs and benefits vary greatly along the river. The geographical pattern of support for and opposition to the EPA|s dredging plan for the Hudson River Superfund site shows the action to be far less popular near the proposed site on the Upper Hudson than to the south. Results also show the importance of information conduits like corporations and environmental groups in the response to such an issue.

Keywords: geographic patterns; support patterns; opposition patterns; river dredging; Hudson River; environmental policy; USA; United States; information conduits; corporations; environmental groups.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2002.053893

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2002 Vol.4 No.2, pp.36 - 51

Published online: 13 May 2013 *

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