"baptists and bootleggers, once removed": The politics of radioactive waste internalization in the European Union

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 17-38

  Darst, Robert G ^a   Dawson, Jane I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; EUROPEAN UNION; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; NUCLEAR POWER; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 44349189328     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/glep.2008.8.2.17     Document Type: Article

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