Nuclear Wastes In The Arctic An Analysis Of Arctic And Other Regional Impacts From Soviet Nuclear Contamination

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
ISBN : 9781428920354

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Nuclear wastes in the Arctic : an analysis of Arctic and other regional impacts from Soviet nuclear contamination. by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:45519190

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Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts from Soviet Nuclear Contamination by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D01220523P

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Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00185864492

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Radioactive and Other Environmental Threats to the United States and the Arctic Resulting from Past Soviet Activities by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence Pdf

Author : Charles Krupnick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786450442

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Decommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines and International Cooperation by Charles Krupnick Pdf

With the end of the Cold War, Russia's submarines were no longer needed to deter or fight Western navies and were very expensive to operate and maintain. Older submarines were taken out of service in large numbers, but without firm plans and infrastructure in place to remove and adequately care for their nuclear components, problems soon developed over the disposition of spent fuel assemblies. Problems arose also of course between Russia and the international community as to the best way to respond to the challenge. This book looks at those problems, first discussing Russia's economy, its environment, and the Russian Navy, and then covering in detail the spent fuel of Russian submarines and related nuclear problems. The engagement of the international community on the issue is then addressed. A theoretical analysis is offered on how Russia's fellow nations can help remedy a troubling environmental problem in a difficult country.

Author : Kristina Spohr,Daniel S. Hamilton,Jason C. Moyer
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780999740682

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The Arctic and World Order by Kristina Spohr,Daniel S. Hamilton,Jason C. Moyer Pdf

The Arctic, long described as the world’s last frontier, is quickly becoming our first frontier—the front line in a world of more diffuse power, sharper geopolitical competition, and deepening interdependencies between people and nature. A space of often-bitter cold, the Arctic is the fastest-warming place on earth. It is humanity’s canary in the coal mine—an early warning sign of the world’s climate crisis. The Arctic “regime” has pioneered many innovative means of governance among often-contentious state and non-state actors. Instead of being the “last white dot on the map,” the Arctic is where the contours of our rapidly evolving world may first be glimpsed. In this book, scholars and practitioners—from Anchorage to Moscow, from Nuuk to Hong Kong—explore the huge political, legal, social, economic, geostrategic and environmental challenges confronting the Arctic regime, and what this means for the future of world order.

Author : Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137581167

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Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present by Charlotte Mathieson Pdf

Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present explores the relationship between the sea and culture from the early modern period to the present. The collection uses the concept of the ‘sea narrative’ as a lens through which to consider the multiple ways in which the sea has shaped, challenged, and expanded modes of cultural representation to produce varied, contested and provocative chronicles of the sea across a variety of cultural forms within diverse socio-cultural moments. Sea Narratives provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the sea and cultural production: it reveals the sea to be more than simply a source of creative inspiration, instead showing how the sea has had a demonstrable effect on new modes and forms of narration across the cultural sphere, and in turn, how these forms have been essential in shaping socio-cultural understandings of the sea. The result is an incisive exploration of the sea’s force as a cultural presence.

Author : Dr. U C Jha
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789382652816

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Armed Conflict and Environmental Damage by Dr. U C Jha Pdf

Armed conflict and military activities have serious adverse impacts on the environment. Modern weaponry, troop movements, landmines, hazardous military waste, and the destruction of forests for military use are a few sources of harm to the environment both during armed conflict and peacetime military activities. Ecological assaults in combat areas are often kept a secret by the government, resulting in even greater humanitarian and environmental harm. Environmental degradation is increasingly being recognized as one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century and its effects are being felt worldwide. Both domestic and international legislations have been inadequate in mitigating the impact of military activities. This book provides details of the environmental destruction wreaked during international and non-international armed conflicts and argues that the existing legal regime for the protection of the environment during armed conflict requires substantial modification. It puts forward the view that though it is inconceivable to impose an absolute ban on environmental damage during military operations, strengthening and clarifying the existing laws protecting the environment in times of conflict, and enforcing environment-friendly practices among military forces could go a long way in protecting natural assets of our earth.

Author : John S. Wettlaufer,J.Gregory Dash,Norbert Untersteiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642600302

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Ice Physics and the Natural Environment by John S. Wettlaufer,J.Gregory Dash,Norbert Untersteiner Pdf

The Advanced Study Institute Ice Physics in the Natural and Endangered Environ ment was held at Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, from September 7 to 19, 1997. The ASI was designed to study the broad range of ice science and technology, and it brought together an appropriately interdisciplinary group of lecturers and students to study the many facets of the subject. The talks and poster presentations explored how basic molecular physics of ice have important environmental consequences, and, con versely, how natural phenomena present new questions for fundamental study. The of lectures discusses these linkages, in order that overall unity of following sunimary the subject and this volume can be perceived. Not all of the lecturers and participants were able to contribute a written piece, but their active involvement was crucial to the success of the Institute and thereby influenced the content of the volume. We began the Institute by retracing the history of the search for a microscopic un derstanding of melting. Our motivation was straightforward. Nearly every phenome non involving ice in the environment is influenced by the change of phase from solid to liquid or vice-versa. Hence, a sufficiently deep physical picture of the melting tran sition enriches our appreciation of a vast array of geophysical and technical problems.

Author : Andrew Newman,Gerry Nagtzaam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136686320

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Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal by Andrew Newman,Gerry Nagtzaam Pdf

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year. Vital medical procedures, industrial processes and basic science research also produce significant quantities of waste. All of this waste must be shielded from the population for extended periods of time. Finding suitable locations for disposal facilities is beset by two main problems: community responses to siting proposals are generally antagonistic and, as a result, governments have tended to be reactive in their policy-making. Decision-making and Radioactive Waste Disposal explores these issues utilizing a linear narrative case study approach that critically examines key stakeholder interactions in order to explain how siting decisions for low level waste disposal are made. Five countries are featured: the US, Australia, Spain, South Korea and Switzerland. This book seeks to establish an understanding of the political, economic, environmental, legal and social dimensions of siting across those countries. This valuable resource fills a gap in the literature and provides recommendations for future disposal facility siting efforts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental law, justice, management, politics, energy and security policy as well as decision-makers in government and industry.

Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136786808

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Encyclopedia of the Arctic by Mark Nuttall Pdf

With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Author : Lars Hedegaard,P. Joenniemi,Bjarne Lindström,A. Östhol,K. Peschel,C.-E. Stalvant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642571275

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The NEBI YEARBOOK 1999 by Lars Hedegaard,P. Joenniemi,Bjarne Lindström,A. Östhol,K. Peschel,C.-E. Stalvant Pdf

Thorvald Stoltenberg Ambassador Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board A.5 the second volume of the this yearbook goes to press, Europe faces new and to some degree unexpected dangers of political and ideological division. It is a frightening realisation that not even ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Empire and the democratisation and economic transformation of most of the old Soviet-dominated Central and Eastern Europe, fissures have appeared that threaten to undo some of what has been accomplished in terms of East-West rapprochement. The immediate crisis over Kosovo may well have been resolved by the time this is being read. However, it is hard to escape a foreboding that some of the mutual ill will between Russia and the Western powers that has surfaced in the wake of that conflict may linger for years to come. It is therefore imperative that Russia and the Western powers sit down to discuss what can be done to avoid similar conflicts in the future and how to overcome mutual recriminations so that they do not harden into new political front lines between East and West in Europe. The recent developments make the promotion of integration in the NEBI area even more urgent. So far this process has been based on two equally impor tant platforms: economic integration and political integration, including mea sures to dismantle old conflict potentials.

Author : Helge Ole Bergesen,Georg Parmann,Oystein B. Thommessen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134055258

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Year Book of International Co-operation on Environment and Development by Helge Ole Bergesen,Georg Parmann,Oystein B. Thommessen Pdf

This eighth annual edition analyzes the international community's position on specific environment and development problems, the main obstacles to effective international solutions, and how to overcome them. It assesses both the achievements and shortcomings of co-operation, distinguishing between the rhetoric and the reality of environmental world politics.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1853838454

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Global Environment Outlook 3 by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

Integrating environment and development:1972-2002; State of the environment and policy retrospective: 1972-2002; Human vulnerability to environmental change; Outlook: 2002-32; Options for action.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004516489

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Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism by Anonim Pdf

Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to address its challenges and shortcomings. The contributors question the role of multilateralism, sometimes accused of being fragmented, inefficient and unrepresentative, and its impact on global governance, democracy, trade and investment, the environment, and human rights. Since most of the authors are not from the UN system, the content of the contributions provides an external and more neutral assessment of the UN’s ability to continue to function today as a serious actor within a global movement in favor of a renewed form of multilateralism. Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism is now available in paperback for individual customers.