Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-Term Radioactive Waste Governance /

The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. Traditionally, it has been considered as mainly a challenge to scientists and engineers to develop technical "solutions" to specific problems. But increasingly the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flüeler, Thomas (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Environment & Policy, 42
Temas:
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Environmental management.
Economics.
Environmental chemistry.
Radiation dosimetry.
Waste Management/Waste Technology.
Environmental Management.
Political Economy and Economic Systems.
Environmental Chemistry.
Radiation Dosimetry and Protection .
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overall Issue and Methodology
  • Setting and Topics at Issue
  • Objectives and Aim
  • Research Political Embedding
  • Issues under Investigation, Evidence and Validation
  • Perspective "From Below": Risk Perception of the Public
  • Insights from Risk Perception Research
  • Risk Perception in Radioactive Waste Issues
  • Perspective "From Above": Decision Processes
  • Insights from Decision Research
  • Development of Decision Making in Technical Systems
  • Decisions in Radioactive Waste Governance
  • Final Disposal Siting as an Example of Sub-Optimum Decision Making
  • Conclusions and Further Development
  • Patterns of Arguments in Radioactive Waste Governance
  • Fundamentals of a Comparison of Disposition Options
  • Integrated Risk Analysis: Outline of an Overall System Robustness.

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