Public Acceptance of Geological Disposal of Carbon Dioxide and Radioactive Waste: Similarities and Differences

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 44, Issue , 2011, Pages 295-315

  Reiner, David M ^a   Nuttall, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CO2 storage; Geological disposal; NIMBY; Public attitudes; Social acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892478508     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8712-6_10     Document Type: Chapter

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