Intergenerational Democracy, Environmental Justice and the Case of Nuclear Waste

Intergenerational Democracy, Environmental Justice and the Case of Nuclear Waste

Cotton, Matthew; Towers, Lee

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

190

Dura

9781032728018

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Introduction

Defining Intergenerational Justice

Three Features of Intergenerational Justice

Children as Proxies of Future Generations

Indigenous Societies and the World System

Humanity, Ethnoclass, Ability, Gender, and Sexuality

Book Outline

Part One - Intergenerational justice dilemmas

Chapter 1: The philosophical challenge of intergenerational justice

Philosophical challenges and concepts in intergenerational justice

Can future people have rights? The non-identity problem

What obligations do we hold to future generations? The problem of reciprocity

The weighting of future obligations - the issue of social discounting

Sufficientarianism, or is enough, enough?

Environmental Rights

Ontological challenges

Conclusions

Chapter 2: Alternative philosophical traditions

Social Relations of the Gift

Indigenous Perspectives on Justice and Time

Defining the Human Across Deep Time

The Over-determination of Man

Conclusions - a new/old subjectivity for intergenerational justice

Chapter 3: Mainstream Economics and Scarce Justice

Generational Wealth Transfers

Trading Justice

The Economics of the Anthropocene

Conclusions

Chapter 4: Abundant Justice and Democracy

Intergenerational Dilemmas

Children and Young People as Future Generational Proxies

Intergenerational Democracy

Media Framings of Youth Protestors

Youth as Proxies

The UN Convention on the Rights of Children

The Intergenerational Capability Approach

Future Studies, Decoloniality, and Backcasting

Mainstream Future Studies

Backcasting Decolonised?

Conclusions

Part Two - Nuclear Waste and Intergenerational Democracy

Chapter 5: Critical Nuclear Concepts

Nuclear Landscapes & Communities

Peripheralisation

Energopower

Nuclear Colonialism

Conclusions

Chapter 6: Canada and the Nuclear Waste Management Organisation

Context and Histories

NWMO - Aims, Scope and Assumptions

The Search for a GDF Site and Implementation

Conclusions

Chapter 7: The World's First GDF - Finland

Context and History

Aims, Scope and Assumptions of NWMOs in Finland

STUK

TVO & Fortum

Posiva

Shared Assumptions

Implementation of the Most Advanced GDF in the World

Finland's Search for a GDF

Media Representations and Consumption

Intragenerational and Intergeneration Justice and Finland's GDF

Conclusions

Chapter 8: The United Kingdom and Nuclear Power and Waste

Context and history of nuclear technologies in the United Kingdom

Period one - Economic and Military Securitisation

Period 2. Nuclear energy expansion and the recognition of waste as an environmental concern

Period 3. The Deliberative Turn

Period 4. Climate change securitisation

Current UK Nuclear Waste Policy

Implementation of the GDF

Expanding Costs and Expanding Inventories

Democratic Deficits and the Nuclear

Conclusion

Conclusion: Justice for All

Nuclear Waste Management and Justice

Distributional Justice

Procedural Justice

The Justice of Recognition

The Justice of Redress and Reparation

Ghosts of Seppo and Western Science

The Darkness of the Grave or the Womb?

References

Index
nuclear waste management;environmental justice;Intergenerational Dilemmas;Indigenous Perspectives;environmental rights