Values in the siting of contested infrastructure: The case of repositories for nuclear waste

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 107-125

  Seidl, Roman ^a   Krütli, Pius ^a   Moser, Corinne ^a   Stauffacher, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

contested infrastructure; nuclear waste; quantitative and qualitative methods; values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884501305     PISSN: 1943815X     EISSN: 19438168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2013.824486     Document Type: Article

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