Global Energy Supply and Emissions: An Interdisciplinary View on Effects, Restrictions, Requirements and Options (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment)

Business & Money

Ziesemer, Thomas

Streffer, Christian

Gethmann, Carl Friedrich

Kröger, Wolfgang

Von Storch, Hans

Kamp, Georg

Knodt, Michèle

Economics

Springer

Jahrbuch Fur Wissenschaft Und Ethik. Band 8, 2003 (German Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Honnefelder, Herausgegeben Von Ludger

Philosophy

de Gruyter

With a global growth in the demand for energy, secure and economical energy supplies play a key role in human development. Based on present-day energy supply technology, our knowledge of available resources and the development of new forms of energy, the study develops an assessment of future energy supplies. It takes account of both the economic and - above all - the ethical dimensions involved. Key Features topical issue with potentially explosive political and economic consequences comprehensive multi-facetted and multidisciplinary approaches to solutions

Ethische Probleme einer Langfristigen Globalen Energieversorgung

Science & Math

Walter de Gruyter

The rapid growth of the world population - nearly six-fold over the last hundred years - combined with the rising number of technical installations especially in the industrialized countries has lead to ever tighter and more strained living spaces on our planet. Because ofthe inevitable processes oflife, man was at first an exploiter rather than a careful preserver of the environment. Environmental awareness with the intention to conserve the environment has grown only in the last few decades. Environmental standards have been defined and limit values have been set largely guided, however, by scientific and medical data on single exposures, while public opinion, on the other hand, now increasingly calls for astronger consideration of the more complex situations following combined exposures. Furthermore, it turned out that environmental standards, while necessarily based on scientific data, must also take into account ethical, legal, economic, and sociological aspects. A task of such complexity can only be dealt with appropriately in the framework of an inter disciplinary group.

Environmental Standards: Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

Renn, Ortwin

Bücker, Josef

Cansier, Adrienne

Cansier, Dieter

Guderian, Robert

Hanekamp, Gerd

Henschler, Dietrich

Pöch, Gerald

Rehbinder, Eckard

Slesina, Marco

Wuttke, Kerstin

Biological Sciences

Radioactive waste (above all highly radioactive wastes from nuclear installations) caused by research, medicine and technology must be disposed of safely. However both the strategies disputed for the disposal of radioactive waste as well as concrete proposals for choosing a location for final waste disposal are highly debatable. An appropriate disposal must conform to both complex, technical requirements and fulfill the radio-biological conditions to appropriately protect man and nature. Ethical, legal and social conditions must also be considered. An interdisciplinary team from various, relevant fields compiled the current status-quo and developed criteria and strategies, which on the one hand meet the requirements of optimal warning and prevention of risk for present and future generations, and additionally on the other hand meet the needs of what current society agrees what is expected to be allowed. This study can be understood as an advanced and continuing contribution to the corresponding scientific specialized debates, due to its interdisciplinary treatment. At the same time it serves as a fundamentally informing contribution to public and political debates, offering an easily comprehensible executive summary and precise content recommendations.

Radioactive Waste: Technical and Normative Aspects of its Disposal (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 38)

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