Research Catalog

Title

The Ethics of Nuclear Energy : Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era / Edited by Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Details

Additional Authors

• Taebi, Behnam
• Roeser, Sabine

Description

1 online resource (302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Summary

Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues of risk, justice, and democracy. The essays consider a range of ethical issues, including radiological protection, the influence of gender in the acceptability of nuclear risk, and environmental, international, and intergenerational justice in the context of nuclear energy. They also address the question of when, and under which conditions, nuclear energy should play a role in the world's future supply of electricity, looking at both developing and industrialized countries. The book will interest readers in ethics and political philosophy, social and political sciences, nuclear engineering, and policy studies.

Note

• Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2015).

OCLC

CR9781107294905

Title

The Ethics of Nuclear Energy : Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era / Edited by Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Taebi, Behnam, editor.

Roeser, Sabine, editor.

Other Form:

Print version: 9781107054844