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Economics --- Decision making --- Technology --- Prise de décision --- Technologie --- Risk assessment --- Evaluation du risque --- Decision Making --- -Decision making --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Decision making. --- Risk assessment. --- Prise de décision --- Technological risk assessment --- Technology - Risk assessment

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Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically. What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing problems faced by the nuclear power industry, and current U.S. government policy is to bury "radwastes" in specially designed deep repositories. K. S. Shrader-Frechette argues that this policy is profoundly misguided on both scientific and ethical grounds. Scientifically-because we cannot trust the precision of 10,000-year predictions that promise containment of the waste. Ethically-because geological disposal ignores the rights of present and future generations to equal treatment, due process, and free informed consent. Shrader-Frechette focuses her argument on the world's first proposed high-level radioactive waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Analyzing a mass of technical literature, she demonstrates the weaknesses in the professional risk-assessors' arguments that claim the site is sufficiently safe for such a plan. We should postpone the question of geological disposal for at least a century and use monitored, retrievable, above-ground storage of the waste until then. Her message regarding radwaste is clear: what you can't see can hurt you.

Radioactive waste disposal in the ground-- Environmental aspects. --- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental aspects --- Risk assessment --- Environmental aspects. --- Risk assessment. --- Burial of radioactive wastes --- Ground radioactive waste disposal --- Underground radioactive waste disposal --- Hazardous waste sites --- Waste disposal in the ground --- Radioactive waste repositories --- Déchets radioactifs --- Elimination dans le sol --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Evaluation du risque --- Radioactive waste disposal --- american history. --- consent. --- due process. --- ethics. --- geology. --- government. --- half life. --- health and safety. --- legal issues. --- liability. --- morals. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- nevada. --- nuclear power. --- nuclear waste. --- political. --- politics. --- pollution. --- public health. --- radioactive waste. --- radwaste. --- respiratory illness. --- science. --- scientific. --- united states history. --- us government. --- us history. --- yucca mountain.

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Explaining ethical concepts such as equality, property rights procedural justice, free informed consent, intergeneration equality, just compensation and moral heroism, this text shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population.

Environmental justice --- S20080421.JPG --- milieuvraagstukken --- Gelijke kansen --- democratie --- 504 --- 301.17 --- 32 --- Environmental justice - United States. --- Acqui 2006

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Lawyers often work pro bono to liberate death-row inmates from flawed legal verdicts that otherwise would kill them. This is the first book on practical philosophy of science, how to practically evaluate scientific findings with life-and-death consequences. Showing how to uncover scores of scientific flaws - typically used by special interests who try to justify their pollution - this book aims to liberate many potential victims of environmentally induced disease and death.

Errors, Scientific. --- Science --- Scientific method --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Mistakes, Scientific --- Scientific errors --- Errors --- Methodology. --- Philosophy of science --- Social ethics

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In this volume, the authors discuss what practical contributions ecology can and can't make in applied science and environmental problem solving. In the first section, they discuss conceptual problems that have often prevented the formulation and evaluation of powerful, precise, general theories, explain why island biogeography is still beset with controversy and examine the ways in which science is value laden. In the second section, they describe how ecology can give us specific answers to practical environmental questions posed in individual case studies, and argue for a new way to look at scientific error. A case study using the Florida panther is examined in the light of these findings. They end by suggesting a bright future for the important, but relatively undeveloped task of applying ecology to practical environmental problem solving.

Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Philosophy. --- Ecophilosophy --- Philosophy --- Life Sciences --- General and Others