Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-term Radioactive Waste Governance /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Flüeler, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Environment & Policy, 42
• Subjects: Environment.; Radiation protection.; Radiation > Safety measures.; Environmental management.; Ecotoxicology.; Waste management.; Economics.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.; Environmental Management.; Economic Systems.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.

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 the...

Table of Contents:

• Overall Issue and Methodology
• Setting and Topics at Issue
• Objectives and Aim
• Research Political Embedding
• Issues under Investigation, Evidence and Validation
• Perspective "From Below": Risk Perception of the Public
• Insights from Risk Perception Research
• Risk Perception in Radioactive Waste Issues
• Perspective "From Above": Decision Processes
• Insights from Decision Research
• Development of Decision Making in Technical Systems
• Decisions in Radioactive Waste Governance
• Final Disposal Siting as an Example of Sub-Optimum Decision Making
• Conclusions and Further Development
• Patterns of Arguments in Radioactive Waste Governance
• Fundamentals of a Comparison of Disposition Options
• Integrated Risk Analysis: Outline of an Overall System Robustness.