Thomas Flüeler

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

Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-Term Radioactive Waste Governance

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Produktbeschreibung

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 recognised by the nuclear community, at least in a general way. In this book, we analyse 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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Produktdetails

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

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

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)