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Nuclear Waste Governance
This volume examines the national plans that ten Euratom countries plus Switzerland and the United States are developing to address high-level radioactive waste storage and disposal. The chapters, which were written by 23 international experts, outline European and national regulations, technology choices, safety criteria, monitoring systems, compensation schemes, institutional structures, and approaches to public involvement. Key stakeholders, their values and interests are introduced, the responsibilities and authority of different actors considered, decision-making processes are analyzed as well as the factors influencing different national policy choices. The views and expectations of different communities regarding participatory decision making and compensation and the steps that have been or are being taken to promote dialogue and constructive problem-solving are also considered.
Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy
Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level. This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed as legitimate by the population. This book posits the inability of democracies to establish such legitimacy as an explanation for the current absence of public policy decisions that can identify a solution. The problems are such that they can be resolved only if fundamental aspects of the modern notion of legitimacy are set aside.
The Future of Radioactive Waste Governance
This Open Access book examines the radioactive waste management policies of ten European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Most countries are in the process of planning and creating final storage solutions, while none has yet finalized this process. Over the past decades many countries have been renewing their decision-making processes and the institutions that support them. The book provides 16 lessons that may advance the future democratic decision-making process around radioactive waste management.
The Social Movement Society
Scholars consider ways in which the social movement has changed as a politics and how it changes the societies in which it occurs. This volume contains revealing perspectives on the effectiveness of social protest.
Responsible Nanobiotechnology
This book comprehensively reviews the considerations of nanotechnology elaborated in philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences and systematizes and develops them further. It focuses on the issues of ethical responsibility regarding chances and risks of nanotechnology and its possible applications in the fields of synthetic nanoparticles, syntheti
Wissens- und Technologietransfer als Innovationstreiber
Erfolgreiche Innovation hängt entscheidend von der effektiven Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschungssystem, Industrie und Anwendern ab. Dem deutschen Innovationssystem wird oft vorgeworfen, dass Spitzenleistungen in der Forschung nicht konsequent und schnell genug in neue Produkte umgesetzt werden. Die Entwicklung und Anwendung neuer Werkstoffe ist beispielhaft dafür, dass Transferprozesse außerordentlich langwierig und komplex sind. Es gibt dennoch gute Beispiele für erfolgreiche neue Produkte und Systeme, die erst durch bahnbrechende Entwicklungen in der Materialforschung ermöglicht wurden. Am Beispiel von ausgewählten Projekten werden Merkmale und Bedingungen erfolgreicher Innovation dargestellt. Zugleich wird gezeigt, welche Barrieren den wirksamen Transfer in diesem Technologiefeld behindern und wo Ansatzpunkte für deren Überwindung liegen. Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Studie eines interdisziplinären Projektteams unter Federführung des ITAS am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) sind für F&E-Manager, Mitarbeiter aus Forschungs- und Transfereinrichtungen ebenso interessant wie für Entscheidungsträger im Bereich der Innovationspolitik.
Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability in Nuclear Waste Governance
This book is the last part of a trilogy and concludes a long-term project that focussed on nuclear waste governance in 24 countries. It deals with core themes of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), e.g. the wicked problems of housing nuclear waste disposal facilities, public participation and public discourse, voluntarism and compensation in siting as well as the role of advisory bodies and commissions. The volume reflects on the diverse factors that shape the debate on what can be considered an ”acceptable solution” and on various strategies adopted in order to minimise conflicts and possibly increase acceptability. The various theoretical and empirical contributions shed light on several mechanisms and issues touched upon in these strategies, such as the role of trust, voluntarism, economic interests at stake, compensation, ethics, governance, and participation.
