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The climate of nuclear energy policy. A research on the dynamics of the policy arrangement around nuclear power plant Borssele (2007)
| Author | Daan F.Boezeman |
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1-01-8-20-52.pdf |
| Date | July 2007 |
| Classification | 1.01.8.20/52 (BORSSELE I - GENERAL) |
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The climate of nuclear energy policy
A research on the dynamics of the policy arrangement
around nuclear power plant Borssele
Daan F. Boezeman
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Bachelorthesis
Supervisor: Jaap Gersie
Social and Political Sciences of the Environment
Nijmegen School of Management
Radboud University Nijmegen
2007
Abstract
This thesis examines how the dynamics and stability of a policy
arrangement can influence the direction of policy. The case on which this
thesis focuses is the arrangement around nuclear power plant Borssele in the
Netherlands. This thesis will show that the arrangement faces dynamics in
each of the dimensions. It shows that the arrangement faced a period of
instability when actors became aware that the legal position of the owners of
the facility was stronger than anticipated. Combined with a discursive
climate in which global warming and energy policy increased in attention,
this led to an abandonment of the political agreement to close the facility in
2013 and extend its lifespan to 2033.
Preface
In front of you lies the report written to complete a year of obligations to enter the
masters degree programme of Social and Political Sciences of the Environment at the
Radboud University Nijmegen. The process took longer as I hoped when starting the project
early 2006. Due to different circumstances the final version took some extra time. After
writing two theses in another academic field a hard deadline still seems to remain difficult.
Lets see whether the last deadline of the master thesis will prove I learned. I however enjoyed
going into the depths of the policy arrangement approach and the actual debate of nuclear
energy in the Netherlands. Especially the fac