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Energy And Environment - The Policy Challenge

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 This latest volume in the Energy Policy Studies series focuses on important interconnections between energy use and global change issues such as upper atmosphere ozone depletion and global warming. Policy options for meeting these challenges are explored in eight contributed chapters that concentrat
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Governing The Atom

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 Promoted as a form of limitless, low-cost energy without the polluting effects of Its fossil fuel counterparts, nuclear power has enjoyed unparalleled support in several countries. Despite the development of an extensive set of policy and institutional mechanisms to foster its use. nuclear technology has been troubled by a wide range of problems and continues to pose risks many believe are far greater than society should accept. The legacy of failure ranges from catastrophic accidents like that at Chernobyl to the declaration of bankruptcy by the Washington Public Power Supply System. Governing the Atom explores why support for the technology remains substantial.The first part of this volume examines the social institutions that have accompanied the development of nuclear power. The second part details the numerous accommodations which have been required of society, beginning with the technology’s Impact on communities and geographic regions particularly affected by mining and milling. The technology’s inherent tendency towards "normal accidents" and the conflict between expert and public opinion on the dangers involved is examined, as are the on-going problems of waste disposal and decommissioning. The volume concludes with an examination of nuclear power developments in France, Germany. Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Eastern Europe, Korea, and Japan.The volume provides a needed vehicle for the timely consultation and dissemination of current research on important energy policy issues. Governing the Atom provides insightful commentary regarding the initiation and development of nuclear technology. It will be of interest to policymakers, energy and environmental experts, sociologists and historians of technology, and all those interested in the problem of democracy in a technological society.
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The Politics Of Energy Research And Development - Energy Policy Studies

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 The Politics of Energy Research and Development examines and evaluates U
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Green Energy Economies - The Search For Clean And Renewable Energy

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 Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources
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Transforming Power - Energy, Environment, And Society In Conflict

by Dietrich Kebschull

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 In 1934, Lewis Mumford critiqued the industrial energy system as a key source of authoritarian economic and political tendencies in modern life
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Environmental Justice - International Discourses In Political Economy

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 Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science
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Energy, Land And Public Policy - Energy Policy Studies

by J. Barry Cullingworth

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 The development of alternative forms of energy supply since the mid-1970s has brought with it a range of new issues and concerns, ranging from nuclear waste disposal to land use planning for energy efficiency
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Environmental Justice - International Discourses In Political Economy

67,56€ + 10% CARD

 Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science
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Energy, Land And Public Policy

by J. Barry Cullingworth

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 The development of alternative forms of energy supply since the mid-1970s has brought with it a range of new issues and concerns, ranging from nuclear waste disposal to land use planning for energy efficiency
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Politics Of Energy Research And Development

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 The Politics of Energy Research and Development examines and evaluates U
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Green Energy Economies - The Search For Clean And Renewable Energy

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources
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Transforming Power - Energy, Environment, And Society In Conflict

by Dietrich Kebschull

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 In 1934, Lewis Mumford critiqued the industrial energy system as a key source of authoritarian economic and political tendencies in modern life
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Green Energy Economies - The Search For Clean And Renewable Energy

71,64€ + 10% CARD

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 Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources
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Energy, Land And Public Policy - Energy Policy Studies

by J. Barry Cullingworth

45,95€ + 10% CARD

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 The development of alternative forms of energy supply since the mid-1970s has brought with it a range of new issues and concerns, ranging from nuclear waste disposal to land use planning for energy efficiency
The Politics Of Energy Research And Development

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 The Politics of Energy Research and Development examines and evaluates U
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Transforming Power - Energy, Environment, And Society In Conflict

by Dietrich Kebschull

66,23€ + 10% CARD

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 In 1934, Lewis Mumford critiqued the industrial energy system as a key source of authoritarian economic and political tendencies in modern life
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Environmental Justice - International Discourses In Political Economy

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 Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science
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Governing The Atom - The Politics Of Risk

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