The problem of radioactive wastes -- Inflexible technologies and incrementalism -- Nuclear power and the problem of radioactive waste -- Nirex and the search for a site -- Health, environmental risks and the social construction of radioactive waste -- The participatory-deliberative turn --...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The problem of radioactive wastes -- 2 Inflexible technologies and incrementalism -- 3 Nuclear power and the problem of radioactive waste -- 4 Nirex and the search for...

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...