Energy, Risk and Governance The Case of Nuclear Energy in India /

• Main Author: Wong, Catherine Mei Ling (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Environmental sociology.; Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Environmental management.; Nuclear energy.; Environmental geography.; Environmental Sociology.; Environment Studies.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Environmental Management.; Nuclear Energy.; Environmental Geography.

This book is about how energy, risk and governance are intertwined in the development of the nuclear industry in India and its relationship with the Indian public. It provides a rare insider-view of how the nuclear establishment thinks about risk, contrasted with public understandings of nuclear ris...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Nuclear Energy, Risk and Governance
• 2. Risk in Social Theory
• 3. The Making of India's Nuclear Energy Programme
• 4. Elite Risk Perceptions
• 5. Risk and Safety
• 6. Public Risk Perceptions
• 7. From Risk Management to Risk Governance
• 8. Conclusion.