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Author : Harold Bolter
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780704380172
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Inside Sellafield written by Harold Bolter and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hunter Davies
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 178033513X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Sellafield Stories written by Hunter Davies and published by Constable. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister, of Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library, and was funded by the BNFL. Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived, worked and built the complex SELLAFIELDS STORIES tells the true story of the Sellafields Nuclear Plant that has been at the heart of the Nation's story for the last 60 years. First set up in the aftermath of World War II to develop Britain's nuclear weapons, it was not until 1957 that it was given over to nuclear power, kick starting a revolution in post war energy. Since then it has been the site of protests, controversy and debate. Today it is still the country's biggest single industrial site employing 13,500 people.
Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323153
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Inside European Identities written by Sharon Macdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following recent events in Eastern Europe, questions surrounding European identity seem more pressing than ever. This volume explores, through a series of ethnographic case studies, the construction and experience of identities in Western Europe. All of the case studies are based on fieldwork, and in geographical scope range from Wales to the Basque country; from Corsica to the Lake District. The peoples they look at are similarly diverse: nationalists and members of the Communist party; rural and urban populations. The essays illustrate the ways in which detailed ethnographic case studies can illuminate how identities are lived by ordinary people.
Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807092509
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Fallout written by Fred Pearce and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into our complicated 8-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity’s struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life, short-sighted politics, and fear. Fallout is an eye-opening odyssey through the first eight decades of this struggle and the radioactive landscapes it has left behind. We are, he finds, forever torn between technological hubris and all-too-human terror about what we have created. At first, Pearce reminds us, America loved the bomb. Las Vegas, only seventy miles from the Nevada site of some hundred atmospheric tests, crowned four Miss Atomic Bombs in 1950s. Later, communities downwind of these tests suffered high cancer rates. The fate of a group of Japanese fishermen, who suffered high radiation doses from the first hydrogen bomb test in Bikini atoll, was worse. The United States Atomic Energy Commission accused them of being Red spies and ignored requests from the doctors desperately trying to treat them. Pearce moves on to explore the closed cities of the Soviet Union, where plutonium was refined and nuclear bombs tested throughout the ’50s and ’60s, and where the full extent of environmental and human damage is only now coming to light. Exploring the radioactive badlands created by nuclear accidents—not only the well-known examples of Chernobyl and Fukushima, but also the little known area around Satlykovo in the Russian Ural Mountains and the Windscale fire in the UK—Pearce describes the compulsive secrecy, deviousness, and lack of accountability that have persisted even as the technology has morphed from military to civilian uses. Finally, Pearce turns to the toxic legacies of nuclear technology: the emerging dilemmas over handling its waste and decommissioning of the great radioactive structures of the nuclear age, and the fearful doublethink over the world’s growing stockpiles of plutonium, the most lethal and ubiquitous product of nuclear technologies. For any reader who craves a clear-headed examination of the tangled relationship between a powerful technology and human politics, foibles, fears, and arrogance, Fallout is the definitive look at humanity’s nuclear adventure.
Author : William Walker
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
ISBN 13 : 9781860300974
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Entrapment written by William Walker and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944730
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Mother Country written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit. Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Author : Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306827131
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Wasteland written by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWS An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind. In India, he meets the waste-pickers on the front line of the plastic crisis. In the UK, he journeys down sewers to confront our oldest—and newest—waste crisis, and comes face-to-face with nuclear waste. In Ghana, he follows the after-life of our technology and explores the global export network that results in goodwill donations clogging African landfills. From an incinerator to an Oklahoma ghost-town, Franklin-Wallis travels in search of the people and companies that really handle waste—and on the way, meets the innovators and campaigners pushing for a cleaner and less wasteful future. With this mesmerizing, thought-provoking, and occasionally terrifying investigation, Oliver Franklin-Wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and along the way, he shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world—before we’re all buried in trash.
Author : Andrew Blowers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317671201
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Legacy of Nuclear Power written by Andrew Blowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear energy leaves behind an infinitely dangerous legacy of radioactive wastes in places that are remote and polluted landscapes of risk. Four of these places - Hanford (USA) where the plutonium for the first atomic bombs was made, Sellafield, where the UK’s nuclear legacy is concentrated and controversial, La Hague the heart of the French nuclear industry, and Gorleben, the focal point of nuclear resistance in Germany - provide the narratives for this unique account of the legacy of nuclear power. The Legacy of Nuclear Power takes a historical and geographical perspective going back to the origins of these places and the ever changing relationship between local communities and the nuclear industry. The case studies are based on a variety of academic and policy sources and on conversations with a vast array of people over many years. Each story is mediated through an original theoretical framework focused on the concept of ‘peripheral communities’ developing through changing discourses of nuclear energy. This interdisciplinary book brings together social, political and ethical themes to produce a work that tells not just a story but also provides profound insights into how the nuclear legacy should be managed in the future. The book is designed to be enjoyed by academics, policy-makers and professionals interested in energy, environmental planning and politics and by a wider group of stakeholders and the public concerned about our nuclear legacy.
Author : Hilary Tovey
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
ISBN 13 : 1904541569
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Environmentalism in Ireland written by Hilary Tovey and published by Institute of Public Administration. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596916176
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book In Mortal Hands written by Stephanie Cooke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative history of nuclear power explores the pros and cons of nuclear energy as a power source that has given way to international tension and weapons development, in a critical assessment that also considers nuclear energy's possible role in countering global warming.
Author : Hannah Bradby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134058896
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Dirty Words written by Hannah Bradby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did dinosaurs contribute to global warming? What is rubbish theory and what indeed is rubbish? And how did the whale become a cuddly toy? And why did we decide to saturate our land and food with pesticides? Dirty Words examines all of these questions and also includes a study of pollution in fiction, from the fogs of Dickens to the smog of Chandler, advice on how to be an environmental troublemaker, and a suggestion of our choice of futures: the world as an icebox or a greenhouse. This entertaining and provocative collection of pieces by a group of environmental experts challenges the reader to take a closer look at the current pollution debate. Originally published in 1991
Author : Alzira Salama
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317158628
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture written by Alzira Salama and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship is often considered only in the context of new venture creation, small business issues, and the profiles and personalities of individual entrepreneurs. The emphasis in Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture is very much on the 'corporate', it focuses on the creation and maintenance of an entrepreneurial management culture that accelerates growth and enhances effectiveness and competitiveness in large organizations. Alzira Salama explains what constitutes entrepreneurial behaviour, how it is facilitated by organizational culture and why entrepreneurial corporate culture is fundamental to business success. She takes you through ways of identifying prevailing cultures and explains how cultures are reinforced or changed. Drawing on exemplary case studies from around the world, she tells the stories both of successful and unsuccessful interventions made in response to the need to move on from bureaucratic or authoritarian cultures. These include specific instances where the context has been privatization, merger and acquisition, transition in the wider economy, or a combination of any of these circumstances. This enlightening book will help managers and consultants, business educators, higher level students and those on executive programmes to understand the nature of an organization's culture, why it is as it is, whether it needs to change, and how it might be changed. Alzira Salama offers real world examples of how to create or re-create an entrepreneurial culture together with tools that will enable corporations to achieve it.
Author : Hilary Arksey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100017171X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book RSI and the Experts written by Hilary Arksey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, RSI and the Experts explores the interactions and negotiations that take place between experts and lay groups in the evolution of medical scientific knowledge, concentrating on Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The book poses questions as to how medical knowledge is developed and what power structures are involved, drawing on evidence collected from a variety of stakeholders, including people with RSI, doctors, and ergonomists. It informs contemporary debates in the sociology of scientific knowledge and explores the practical implications of lay intervention, bridging sociological theory, medical science policy and activist concerns.
Author : Paul Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134176090
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Homeland Security in the UK written by Paul Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed examination of whether domestic security measures are striking an appropriate balance between homeland security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 era. Professor Paul Wilkinson and the other contributors assess the nature of UK responses to terrorism by key public and private-sector bodies, highlighting how these organizations can prevent, pre-empt, counter and manage terrorist attacks by using a matrix of factors such as types of terrorist networks, tactics and targets. The volume also compares and contrasts the UK's response with cognate states elsewhere in the EU and with the USA. While improved intelligence has helped prevent a major Al Qaeda attack, the authors conclude that there is still a ‘major question mark’ over whether the country is adequately resourced to deal with an emergency situation, particularly in major cities other than London. The book also confirms that while the UK faces a ‘real and serious’ threat of terrorist attack by Al Qaeda, it is better prepared for an attack than other EU member states. Homeland Security in the UK will be essential reading for all students of terrorism studies, security studies and politics, as well as by professional practitioners and well-informed general readers.
Author : Virginia H. Sublet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401586195
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Scientific Uncertainty and Its Influence on the Public Communication Process written by Virginia H. Sublet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from academia and government who are actively engaged in research in the area of risk communication present a compendium of cases that give information and allow the development of strategies to improve the communication of scientific information to the public. The cases span Western, Central and Eastern Europe, covering such areas as nuclear waste, heavy metal contamination, landfill siting, risk perception, global warming, international health for all, and more. The conclusions and recommendations presented here are being used to develop future activities to further explore this area of risk communication as an international study. Audience: Scientists, risk communicators, psychologists, toxicologists, health professionals, and anyone who has an interest in public communication on scientific uncertainty.
Author : Scott Lash
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848609574
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Risk, Environment and Modernity written by Scott Lash and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-01-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in `risk societies′.
Author : F. Barker
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727726674
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Management of Radioactive Wastes written by F. Barker and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1998 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalyst for the conference which gave rise to these proceedings was the decision of the former UK Government to block further investigation by the nuclear waste agency, UK Nirex Ltd, for a national radioactive waste repository near the Sellafield site. This decision made it essential to reconsider the question: 'Where next for radioactive waste management?' The papers in this volume pinpoint the key issues that need to be addressed.
