Thomas Flüeler

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Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems (eBook, PDF)

Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-Term Radioactive Waste Governance

Beschreibung

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 these narrow solutions have been enlarged by wider societal considerations such as ethics, public involvement, control and retrievability - needs that have in the meanwhile been recognized by the nuclear community. This book, analyzes motives for a broad discourse as well as suggest prerequisites to launch it. The author attempts to give a novel, empirically based and technically sound treatment of fundamental issues in long-term management and governance. Written to be accessible to a wide selection of the interested public, the study proposes a combination of technical design issues, analysis methods and institutional backup in a dynamic procedure, and with involvement at all levels of political, commercial and social life.

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Autor

Thomas Flüeler, Institute of Human-Environment Systems, Natural and Social Science Interface (NSSI/UNS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, and Independent Environmental Consultant, Umweltrecherchen & -gutachten, Hausen AG, Switzerland

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 357
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402035296
• Artikelnr.: 37357240

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From the reviews:

"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)