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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.
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.
Nuclear Waste Management in a Globalised World
High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue. For the next 100 years, the HLW will be subject to policy decisions and value assessments. Physically safe, technologically stable, and socio-economically sustainable HLW-management will top the agenda. That must be accomplished in a society whose segments are both stable and in a rapid state of flux, under the influence of global as well as national factors, private interests as well as the vagaries of national politics. Among the challenges to be faced is how to codify responsibilities of nuclear industry, governments and international organisations, and any adopted management policy must attain legitimacy at the local, national, regional and global levels. All such considerations raise questions about the practical and theoretical knowledge. This special issue book will address these questions by exploring HLW-management in Canada, France, Germany, India, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Special emphasis will be placed on highlighting national context, current trends and uncertainties, with relevance to a socially sustainable contemporary and future HLW-management.
Conflict and Cooperation in Cyberspace
Conflict and Cooperation in Cyberspace: The Challenge to National Security brings together some of the world's most distinguished military leaders, scholars, cyber operators, and policymakers in a discussion of current and future challenges that cyberspace poses to the United States and the world. Maintaining a focus on policy-relevant solutions, i
