Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability in Nuclear Waste Governance: An International Comparison Volume III (Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection)

This book is the last part of a trilogy and concludes a long-term project that focussed on nuclear waste governance in 24 countries. It deals with core themes of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), e.g. the wicked problems of housing nuclear waste disposal facilities, public participation and public discourse, voluntarism and compensation in siting as well as the role of advisory bodies and commissions. The volume reflects on the diverse factors that shape the debate on what can be considered an "acceptable solution" and on various strategies adopted in order to minimise conflicts and possibly increase acceptability. The various theoretical and empirical contributions shed light on several mechanisms and issues touched upon in these strategies, such as the role of trust, voluntarism, economic interests at stake, compensation, ethics, governance, and participation. Contents Historical Paths and Legacies Participation, Stakeholder Dialogue and Mediation Trust, Voluntarism and Compensation Between Science and Society: The Role of Experts and Commissions Planning and Socio-Technical Challenges Target Groups Energy (policy) experts; nuclear energy experts and practitioners, political and social scientists, economists, engineers; decision makers and consultants, civil society organizations The Editors Achim Brunnengräber and Maria Rosaria Di Nucci are members of the project "Methods and measures to deal with socio-technical challenges in storage and disposal of radioactive waste management - SOTEC-Radio" and researchers at the Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin Front Matter ....Pages I-XIII Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Making Nuclear Waste Problems Governable (Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Achim Brunnengräber)....Pages 3-19 Why Technical Solutions are Insufficient (M. V. Ramana)....Pages 21-38 Front Matter ....Pages 39-39 The Future is Still Unwritten – History Too (Daniel Häfner)....Pages 41-54 The Legacy of Nuclear Power and What Should Be Done About It (Andrew Blowers)....Pages 55-68 The Elephant in the Room (Anselm Tiggemann)....Pages 69-87 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 Chances, Challenges and Choices of Participation in Siting a Nuclear Waste Repository (Jan-Hendrik Kamlage, Jan Warode, Anna Mengede)....Pages 91-110 Consensus-Oriented Dialogue (Silke Freitag)....Pages 111-120 Effective Dialogue and Broad Societal Support (Meritxell Martell)....Pages 121-144 Front Matter ....Pages 145-145 Voluntarism in Siting Nuclear Waste Disposal Facilities (Maria Rosaria Di Nucci)....Pages 147-174 The Role and Functions of Community Benefit Schemes (Markku Lehtonen, Matti Kojo)....Pages 175-205 The Use of the Added Value Approach in Siting Radioactive Waste Facilities (Matti Kojo, Phil Richardson)....Pages 207-228 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Experts and Politics in the German Nuclear Waste Governance (Ana María Isidoro Losada, Dörte Themann, Maria Rosaria Di Nucci)....Pages 231-259 A “Deliberative Turn” in German Nuclear Waste Governance? (Julia Olliges)....Pages 261-292 Bringing Transparency and Voice into the Search for a Deep Geological Repository (Miranda A. Schreurs, Jorina Suckow)....Pages 293-310 The ENTRIA Project (2013-2018) (Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig)....Pages 311-322 Stakeholder Experience (Gordon MacKerron)....Pages 323-331 Front Matter ....Pages 333-333 The Wicked Problem of Long Term Radioactive Waste Governance (Achim Brunnengräber)....Pages 335-355 The Experience of the Swiss Negotiated Approach (Martin Steinebrunner)....Pages 357-381 Multi-Level Governance of Nuclear Waste Disposal (Peter Hocke, Achim Brunnengräber)....Pages 383-401 Back Matter ....Pages 403-409 This book is the last part of a trilogy and concludes a long-term project that focussed on nuclear waste governance in 24 countries. It deals with core themes of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), e.g. the wicked problems of housing nuclear waste disposal facilities, public participation and public discourse, voluntarism and compensation in siting as well as the role of advisory bodies and commissions. The volume reflects on the diverse factors that shape the debate on what can be considered an "acceptable solution" and on various strategies adopted in order to minimise conflicts and possibly increase acceptability. The various theoretical and empirical contributions shed light on several mechanisms and issues touched upon in these strategies, such as the role of trust, voluntarism, economic interests at stake, compensation, ethics, governance, and participation. Contents Historical Paths and Legacies Participation, Stakeholder Dialogue and Mediation Trust, Voluntarism and Compensation Between Science and Society: The Role of Experts and Commissions Planning and Socio-Technical Challenges Target Groups Energy (policy) experts; nuclear energy experts and practitioners, political and social scientists, economists, engineers; decision makers and consultants, civil society organizations The Editors Achim Brunnengräber and Maria Rosaria Di Nucci are members of the project "Methods and measures to deal with socio-technical challenges in storage and disposal of radioactive waste management - SOTEC-Radio" and researchers at the Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin