Overview
Waste management can be considered as a mirror of society. In its (our) fluctuating definition, besides conserving a supply of valuable materials and resources, it acts as a fascinating expression for our throw-away mentality. Waste is inevitable, but it nevertheless provides an opportunity, a need and an incentive for society to pursue a more careful management of it. If this is successfully carried out, society may well find it possible to manage itself in an overall more careful and universal way. The management, or governance, of radioactive waste particularly is determined by a complex constellation of individuals, social aggregates, and institutions. A wealth of interconnected parts forms a complex and volatile system that is highly technical and explosively political in nature. The problems inherent in this system must be managed so as to reach a safe, acceptable, responsible, feasible, and sustainable “solution”. It is a system with an objective long-term dimension, with a hazard potential of, in part, hundreds of thousands of years; and it has a long-term institutional dimension insofar as its implementation must last for decades. The very notion of risk extends from the long life of radionuclides, over the perception of dread to the decisional risk of whether, when and how to implement an agreed upon “solution”.
Full Product Details
Author: Thomas Flüeler
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition: 2006 ed.
Volume: 42
Dimensions:
Width: 21.00cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 29.70cm
Weight: 1.600kg
ISBN: 9781402034800
ISBN 10: 1402034806
Pages: 357
Publication Date: 21 December 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: Flueler provides one of the most extensive bibliographies, which he conveniently organizes into a number of useful categories for those who are conducting research in this area. His extensive experience with how this issue was dealt with in Switzerland over a 50-y period along with examples from a variety of other countries is well documented. ... This text would be valuable for those specialists who are directly involved in dealing with the issue of radioactive waste ... . (Stewart, Health Physics, Vol. 93 (2), 2007)
Aus den Rezensionen: ! Das dieser Arbeit zugrunde liegende Leitmotiv ist die Frage, was jeder Akteur zur Losung der Entsorgungsproblematik beitragen kann ... Das Buch richtet sich ... an Leser, die die Endlagerdebatte in der Schweiz im geschichtlichen Kontext nachvollziehen und aus ihr lernen wollen. ... Tatsachlich leistet der Autor ... eine umfassende ... Sichtung und Zitierung der Quellen. Sein mehrteiliges und transparentes Literatur-System ermoglicht ... eine sofortige Unterscheidung von Primar- und Sekundarquellen. ... Flueler leistet auch einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Diskussion von Risikowahrnehmung im Bereich der nuklearen Entsorgung ! (Matthias Deutsch und Sonja Walti, Fallstudie zur Schweizer Entsorgungspolitik, in: Technikfolgenabschatzung Theorie und Praxis, 2007, Vol. 16, Issue 1, S. 92 ff.)
From the reviews: <p> FlA1/4eler provides one of the most extensive bibliographies, which he conveniently organizes into a number of useful categories for those who are conducting research in this area. His extensive experience with how this issue was dealt with in Switzerland over a 50-y period along with examples from a variety of other countries is well documented. a ] This text would be valuable for those specialists who are directly involved in dealing with the issue of radioactive waste a ] . (Stewart, Health Physics, Vol. 93 (2), 2007)
