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Equity Issues in Radioactive Waste Management (1983)
| Author | Roger E.Kasperson |
| Date | 1983 |
| Classification | 6.01.5.50/47 (WASTE - RADIOACTIVE WASTE GENERAL) |
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Preface Equity is a primary objective of the modern democratic industrial state; it also involves fundamental conflict. The institutions responsible for providing fair and impartial access to welfare, security, and opportunity are embedded in a sociotechnical system dependent on uneven growth, specialization, concentration, and hierarchical organization. How to determine equity is thus one of the fundamental, ongoing questions of our society; its resolution proceeds under rapidly changing conditions. New standards of equity arise as society examines older inequities, and as expectations of public participation in judgments and decisions change. Science and technology not only increase human possibilities but also frequently pose new issues about right and wrong, good and evil, or cast older problems in a new light. They alter traditional constraints on human capability and culpability. Technologies that pose equity issues, therefore, need to be assessed in a framework of shifting standards and evolving institutions.
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