Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-Term Radioactive Waste Governance
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2006, 2006
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006 |
| Series: | Environment & Policy
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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