This paper distinguishes between two types of emergency management at the local scale—municipal government responsibilities and community-level initiatives. It argues that these are interdependent, but separate aspects of emergency management. Communities, whether or not tied to particular...

Although ostensibly a technical issue, the environmental assessment of the proposed concept to dispose of nuclear fuel waste (NFW) deep in igneous rock of the Canadian Shield, caused considerable debate regarding the social, ethical, and political dimensions of the issue. Among other things,...