Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on IntelligencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Radioactive and Other Environmental Threats to the United States and the Arctic Resulting from Past Soviet Activities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on IntelligencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Examines enviromental and human health impacts from wastes dumped in Arctic and North Pacific regions, from nuclear contaminants discharged into these environments, and from radioactive releases from both past and future nuclear activities in region.
Nuclear wastes in the Arctic : an analysis of Arctic and other regional impacts from Soviet nuclear contamination.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428920358
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This report examines the environmental and human health impacts from wastes dumped into the Arctic and North Pacific regions, from nuclear contaminants discharged into these environments, and from radioactive releases from both past and future nuclear activities in the region. The report presents what is known and unknown about this waste and contamination and how it may affect public health. Because so many factors are involved and science cannot provide absolute answers to many questions, this study emphasizes the need for care, caution, awareness, and prudence. It also stresses the need for a stable and enduring institutional framework and international cooperation for long term observation and monitoring.
Nuclear Contamination in the Arctic Ocean
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Continental ShelfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Radioactive Waste Management
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Arctic Research of the United States
Author: Arctic Research Priorities
Author: United States. Arctic Research CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Report of the United States federal government body responsible for determining priorities for Arctic research by the United States, including the text of the relevant legislation and a statement of principles for the conduct of research in the Arctic.
Whose Backyard, Whose Risk
Author: Michael B. GerrardPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262571135
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In Whose Backyard, Whose Risk, environmental lawyer, professor, and commentator Michael B. Gerrard tackles the thorny issue of how and where to dispose of hazardous and radioactive waste. In Whose Backyard, Whose Risk, environmental lawyer, professor, and commentator Michael B. Gerrard tackles the thorny issue of how and where to dispose of hazardous and radioactive waste. Gerrard, who has represented dozens of municipalities and community groups that have fought landfills and incinerators, as well as companies seeking permits, clearly and succinctly analyzes a problem that has generated a tremendous amount of political conflict, emotional anguish, and transaction costs. He proposes a new system of waste disposal that involves local control, state responsibility, and national allocation to deal comprehensively with multiple waste streams. Gerrard draws on the literature of law, economics, political science, and other disciplines to analyze the domestic and international origins of wastes and their disposal patterns. Based on a study of the many failures and few successes of past siting efforts, he identifies the mistaken assumptions and policy blunders that have helped doom siting efforts. Gerrard first describes the different kinds of nonradioactive and radioactive wastes and how each is generated and disposed of. He explains historical and current siting decisions and considers the effects of the current mechanisms for making those decisions (including the hidden economics and psychology of the siting process). A typology of permit rules reveals the divergence between what underlies most siting disputes and what environmental laws actually protect. Gerrard then looks at proposals for dealing with the siting dilemma and examines the successes and failures of each. He outlines a new alternative for facility siting that combines a political solution and a legal framework for implementation. A hypothetical example of how a siting decision might be made in a particular case is presented in an epilogue.
NATO Expansion and Norway
Author: Johan C. HaraldsenPublisher:
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Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Study of the implications of NATO expansion on Norway and Norwegian Security policy. Subject is examined through identification of historical characteristics in Norwegian security policy, historical and current threat assessment, identification of Norwegian concerns over NATO expansion, possible collective security alternatives, and the internal Norwegian political debate concerning security issues.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description