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This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have
contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development
around the world, and accounts for differences in safety
regulations in different countries. In order to understand why
nuclear development has not met widespread expectations, this book
focusses on six key countries with active nuclear power programmes:
the USA, China, France, South Korea, the UK, and Russia. The
authors integrate cultural theory and theory of regulation, and
examine the links between pressures of cultural bias on regulatory
outcomes and political pressures which have led to increased safety
requirements and subsequent economic costs. They discover that
although nuclear safety is an important upward driver of costs in
the nuclear power industry, this is influenced by the inherent need
to control potentially dangerous reactions rather than stricter
nuclear safety standards. The findings reveal that differences in
the strictness of nuclear safety regulations between different
countries can be understood by understanding differences in
cultural contexts and the changes in this over time. This book will
be of great interest to students, scholars, and policymakers
working on energy policy and regulation, environmental politics and
policy, and environment and sustainability more generally.
This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have
contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development
around the world, and accounts for differences in safety
regulations in different countries. In order to understand why
nuclear development has not met widespread expectations, this book
focusses on six key countries with active nuclear power programmes:
the USA, China, France, South Korea, the UK, and Russia. The
authors integrate cultural theory and theory of regulation, and
examine the links between pressures of cultural bias on regulatory
outcomes and political pressures which have led to increased safety
requirements and subsequent economic costs. They discover that
although nuclear safety is an important upward driver of costs in
the nuclear power industry, this is influenced by the inherent need
to control potentially dangerous reactions rather than stricter
nuclear safety standards. The findings reveal that differences in
the strictness of nuclear safety regulations between different
countries can be understood by understanding differences in
cultural contexts and the changes in this over time. This book will
be of great interest to students, scholars, and policymakers
working on energy policy and regulation, environmental politics and
policy, and environment and sustainability more generally.
Human consumption of meat and dairy products continues to be a
major driver of climate change but has so far been largely
overlooked in national and international climate policy. Using data
obtained from a twelve-country survey and focus groups and
stakeholder meetings in Brazil, China, the United States, and the
United Kingdom, the report aims to explore the extent of public
awareness and understanding of the issue and make specific
recommendations for state and non-state actors to develop dietary
change policies on the national and international level. In doing
so, it will help to shift the focus toward demand-side action,
which has been shown to be essential both to meet international
agreed climate objectives and to achieve other societal, health,
and environmental objectives.
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