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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance : From the Czech Republic to Fukushima
Democracy and the Global Nuclear Renaissance : From the Czech Republic to Fukushima
Nuclear energy has been providing electricity for over fifty years and is often perceived as a technological breakthrough without negative environmental impacts. It was promoted in the capitalist world as cheap energy, and nuclear power plants were built in communist countries as monuments to the socialist industrial state. Today, the cost-effectiveness of nuclear energy has been challenged, and there is opposition to its continued use and development for environmental and security-related reasons.
This chapter explores the completion of the 1,000-megawatt Temelin nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic, where two additional units are proposed. It examines the extent to which sustainable ...
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