Radioactive Waste: Politics and Technology

ISBN-13: 9780415054935 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 266 str.

Frans Berkhaut

Opis

This study provides a detailed historical account of the policy and practice of radioactive waste management in Britain, Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany. In their differing approaches, these three countries define the parameters of civil nuclear strategy in Europe. The comparative analysis of the evolution of policy clarifies the context of political and technical decision-making. Assessing the varying degrees of influence which the public, the industry and the government exercise over these actions, Frans Berkhout applies the concept of boundaries of control, questioning the extent to which such control can be relinquished. This analysis of nuclear strategy, the politics of nuclear power and the shifting emphasis of government regulations redefines the issue of radioactive waste management and sets it at the centre of the current debate about power, the environment and society.

Recenzje

`...recommended...of interest to a range of `experts', political scientists, physicists and regulators, as well as the informed general reader.' - Environmental Values

`This timely book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on technological hazards...this book provides a wealth of localized material on three European countries that should be of enormous use to those of us working in the environmental field.' - Environment and Planning A

O autorze

Frans Berkhout