Problems and Prospects for Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy

List of contents

Illustrations
Preface
When Rationality and Good Science Are Not Enough: Science, Politics, and the Policy Process by Eric B. Herzik and E. Robert Statham
Beyond Yucca Mountain and Environmental Gridlock: An Alternative Future for Nuclear Waste Policy by Bruce B. Clary
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compacts: Cases in the Illogic of Collective Action by Michael V. McGinnis
Legal Issues Surrounding Nuclear Waste Storage and Transportation by J. Holmes Armstead and Karlen J. Reed
Critical Organization and Management Issues in Radioactive Waste Disposal by Brian Cook
Managing Science: Quality Assurance and Nuclear Waste Disposal by Amy Snyder McCabe
Transporting Nuclear Wastes: Securing Public Trust by Leonard S. Goodman
Nuclear Waste Management in Sweden: Balancing Risk Perceptions and Developing Community Consensus by Marianne Löwgren
Subsystem Politics and the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Congressional Oversight of DOE's Environmental Restoration Program by James A. Thurber and Timothy C. Evanson
Environmental Policymaking under New Federalism: The Hanford Clean-Up by Marcy Everest
Index

About the author

ERIC B. HERZIK is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the editor (with B. Brown) of Gubernatorial Leadership and State Policy (Greenwood, 1991).

ALVIN H. MUSHKATEL is Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the Office of Hazards Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author (with R. Perry) of Disaster Management (Quorum, 1984).

Product details

• Assisted by: Eric B. Herzik (Editor), Herzik Eric B. (Editor), Alvin H. Mushkatel (Editor), Mushkatel Alvin H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1993
• EAN: 9780313290589
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29058-9
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, NATURE / Natural Resources, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Science / Environmental Science, Waste Management, Central / national / federal government policies, Nuclear issues, Central government policies, Politics, Law, and Government