1st Edition
Trust, Mistrust, Distrust, and Trust-building in the Nuclear Sector Historical and Comparative Experience from Europe
Introduction
Markku Lehtonen, Ana Prades, Josep Espluga and Stathis Arapostathis
1. To trust or not to trust? Structures, practices and discourses of transboundary trust around the Swedish nuclear power plant Barsebäck near Copenhagen
Jan-Henrik Meyer
2. Trust, mistrust and distrust as blind spots of Social Licence to Operate: illustration via three forerunner countries in nuclear waste management
Markku Lehtonen, Matti Kojo, Mika Kari, Tuija Jartti and Tapio Litmanen
3. Confidence gap or timid trust building? The role of trust in the evolution of the nuclear waste governance in Germany
Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Ana María Isidoro Losada, and Dörte Themann
4. The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization
Markku Lehtonen, Ana Prades, Josep Espluga & Wilfried Konrad
5. Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste: trust, cost and social acceptability
Matthew Cotton
6. Trust, distrust and radioactive waste management in contemporary Russia
Tatiana Kasperski and Andrei Stsiapanau
Biography
Markku Lehtonen is an interdisciplinary social scientist at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
Ana Prades is the head of of the Centre for Socio-technical Research (CISOT) at CIEMAT (Research Centre for Energy, Technology and the Environment) in Barcelona, Spain.
Josep Espluga Trenc is Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain.
Stathis Arapostathis is Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece.
