Opening up or Closing Down Radioactive Waste Management Policy? Debates on Reversibility and Retrievability in Finland, France, and the United Kingdom

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 139-179

  Lehtonen, Markku ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

deliberation; governance; nuclear waste; participation; reversibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955897703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1044     Document Type: Article

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