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  • The Future of Radioactive Waste Governance

    Lessons from Europe

    Edición de Maarten Arentsen, Rinie van Est ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This Open Access book examines the radioactive waste management policies of ten European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Most countries are in the process of planning and creating final storage solutions, while none has yet finalized this process. Over the past decades many countries have been renewing their ... Leer más

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  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    de Paul N. Edwards ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

    Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era

    Edición de Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser ...
    Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Beyond Sputnik

    U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    de Homer Alfred Neal, Tobin Smith, Jennifer McCormick ...
    Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey of the field for use as an introductory textbook in courses and a reference guide for legislators ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Planning Major Infrastructure

    A Critical Analysis

    de Tim Marshall ...
    This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform better spatial planning and more intelligent political steering?Case studies of the key features of ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Guardians of Public Value

    How Public Organisations Become and Remain Institutions

    Edición de Arjen Boin, Lauren A. Fahy, Paul 't Hart ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high public esteem through changing and challenging times. It builds upon the scholarly tradition of ... Leer más

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  • Punch-Drunk on Co2...Dizzy from Spin

    Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming Sustainable Hypothesis or Unsustainable Hoax?

    de Peter Sullivan ...
    Prior to the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, it became evident that no discernible global warming had occurred since 1998, despite a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions. Consequently, the catastrophic man-made global warming hypothesis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was conveniently rebranded as climate change.This book allows readers, with little or no ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    de Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy

    Edición de Masami Onoda, Oran R Young ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations in solving large-scale environmental problems. The book showcases the results of engaging distinct communities to enhance our ability to identify emerging ... Leer más

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  • Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development

    de Claire Auplat ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
    Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development. Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by 2015 and that it will bring about economic change of at least the same magnitude as the industrial revolution. Nanotechnology is recent, younger by some ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Transnational Environmental Policy

    Reconstructing Ozone

    de Reiner Grundmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving capacities of industrialised countries and the world society as a whole. Reiner Grundmann investigates the ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law - Volume III

    Legal Aspects of the Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes

    Edición de Jonathan L. Black-Branch, Dieter Fleck ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This third volume of the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on the development and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes within a contemporary global context, an interdependent characteristic of the Non-Proliferation Treaty along with disarmament and non-proliferation. The scholarly contributions in this volume explore this interrelationship, considering ... Leer más

    $260.99 USD