Overview
- This empirically based study provides a novel approach to complementing technical expertise and economic/political power with stakeholder involvement
- Inclusive participation is shown to be an asset that strengthens the processes, enhances robustness and facilitates sustainable decision making, thus adding value for all involved
Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 42)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Overall Issue and Methodology
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Perspective "From Below": Risk Perception of the Public
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Perspective "From Above": Decision Processes
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Conclusions and Further Development
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"Flüeler 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)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems
Book Subtitle: Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-Term Radioactive Waste Governance
Editors: Thomas Flüeler
Series Title: Environment & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3529-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3480-0Published: 21 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8908-1Published: 04 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3529-6Published: 08 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1383-5130
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0110
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 357
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Environmental Management, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Ecotoxicology, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection