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Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Critical Issues, Critical Perspectives
Darrin Durant   Genevieve Fuji Johnson  

$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 10/23/2009
ISBN: 978-0-7748-1708-0    


$32.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2010
ISBN: 978-0-7748-1709-7    
208 Pages


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About the Book

As oil reserves decline and the environment takes centre stage in public policy discussions, the merits and dangers of nuclear power and nuclear waste management continue to be debated. Canada is intent on building more reactors to increase energy production without destroying the planet, but it and other nuclear energy-producing countries face not only technical problems but also social and ethical issues.

Nuclear Waste Management in Canada provides a critical antidote to the favourable position of government and industry. The contributors build their case by exploring key issues and developments. What do frequently used terms such as safety, risk, and acceptability really mean? How and why did the public consultation process in Canada fail to address ethical and social issues? What is the significance and potential of a public consultation process that involves diverse interests, epistemologies, and actors, including Aboriginal peoples? And how do we ensure that our frameworks for discussion are inclusive and ethical?

This timely collection defuses the uncertainty, ambiguity, and ignorance that surrounds nuclear energy. It will appeal to academics, students, and stakeholders in public policy or environmental studies who want to think critically and more broadly about how we approach energy generation and waste management.

About the Author(s)

Darrin Durant is assistant professor in the Program in Science and Technology Studies at York University.

Genevieve Fuji Johnson is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1 Critical Perspectives on the Nuclear Story / Darrin Durant and Genevieve Fuji Johnson
2 The Trouble with Nuclear / Darrin Durant
3 An Official Narrative: Telling the History of Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Policy Making / Darrin Durant and Anna Stanley
4 The Long Haul: Ethics in the Canadian Nuclear Waste Debate / Peter Timmerman
5 Public Consultation as Performative Contradiction: Limiting Discussion in Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Debate / Darrin Durant
6 The Darker Side of Deliberative Democracy: The Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s National Consultation Process / Genevieve Fuji Johnson
7 Representing the Knowledges of Aboriginal Peoples -- The "Management" of Diversity in Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Waste / Anna Stanley
8 Canadian Communities and the Management of Nuclear Fuel Waste / Brenda L. Murphy
9 Situating Canada’s Approaches to Siting a Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Facility / Brenda L. Murphy and Richard Kuhn

References
Contributors
Index

Reviews

"This book is a solid contribution to the political science of public consultation, a strong message to the Canadian nuclear industry, and a sophisticated source of support for individuals and groups who wish to challenge basic assumptions we should never take for granted."

Peter Stoett, Department of Political Science, Concordia University

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Related Topics

Environmental Studies
Political Science

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