Nontechnical issues in waste management: ethical, institutional, and political concerns

Technical Report · Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6567303· OSTI ID:6567303

Hebert, J A; Rankin, W L; Brown, P G; Schuller, C R; Smith, R F; Goodnight, J A; Lippek, H E

The report consists of a presentation and distillation of major nontechnical issues surrounding commercial waste management, followed by ethical, institutional, and political analyses of these issues. The ethical analysis consists of a discusson of what is meant by ''ethics'' and ''morality'' in the waste management context and an illustrative attempt at an ethical analysis of the commercial nuclear waste problem. Two institutional analyses are presented: one is an analysis of the possible problems of long-term human institutions in waste management; the other is a presentation of institutional arrangements for the short term. A final chapter discusses issues and concerns involving intergovernmental relations--that is, local, state, and federal interface problems in waste management.

• Research Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-06-1830
• OSTI ID: 6567303
• Report Number(s): PNL-2400; TRN: 78-017074
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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