Fundamental ignorance in the regulation of reactor safety and flooding: Risks of knowledge management in the risk society 1

Who Owns Knowledge?: Knowledge and the Law

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 107-123

  Huber, Michael ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781351321600-5     Document Type: Chapter

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