‘Heating up’ or ‘cooling down’? Analysing and performing broadened participation in technoscientific conflicts

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2065-2079

  Sundqvist, Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Belgium; Participatory technologies; Performativity; Public participation; Radioactive waste management; Science and technology studies; Sweden

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STAKEHOLDER; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BELGIUM; SWEDEN;

EID: 84907291929     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4611     Document Type: Article

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