Danger explodes, space implodes: the evolution of the environmental discourse on nuclear waste, 1945–1969

Pajo, Judi

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“…They might be less financially constraint. 17 Total capacity takes a significantly negative coefficient. If the share in renewable energy production increases, so does the number of renewable energy policies.…”

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“…On the other hand, energy produced by nuclear technology is stable and relatively low in price. Therefore, public awareness and beliefs about possible consequences are heterogeneous across countries and fluctuating over time [16,17]. For instance, Bisconti [18] analyzed long-term public opinion data and concluded that the larger portion of the US public takes a neutral position concerning nuclear energy.…”

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Do we need disasters to adopt more environmental policies?

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Background In this paper, we try to shed light on the question whether natural disasters, such as nuclear accidents, have an impact on policy makers’ activity in passing new green energy policies. Disruptive moments like exogenous shocks reinforce society’s disapproval against polluting technologies and should open a window of opportunities to eventually initiate a change toward green energy. Methods Based on the data of 34 OECD countries, we disentangle the effect of disruptive exogenous shocks on countries’ policy activity. Starting with OLS regressions, we run several robustness checks by using a pre-sample mean approach, an ARDL technique called dynamic heterogeneous panel models (DHPM), which allows for the distinction between long- and short-run effects. Results The results corroborate the hypothesis that unexpected, disruptive events have a positive impact on the actual number of renewable energy policies. The fade-out time for shocks is about 7 years, leaving a positive long-term effect. Conclusion Exogenous events such as nuclear disasters act as “focusing event” and seem to offer policy makers a window of opportunities to initiate conducive policy measures toward a cleaner economy. Furthermore, a country’s capacity in green technologies is key to a pervasive diffusion of green technologies.

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“…To this researcher, the prompt for addressing the epistemic dimensions of ethnography came with the completion of a project on the sociocultural existence of nuclear waste (Pajo, 2015, 2016). The initial purpose of that effort was to understand anthropologically nuclear waste not in its material existence but in its sociocultural existence and specifically as arising in public discourse in the United States.…”

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“…So the New York Times is best positioned also for serving as a proxy for the knowledgeable and articulate individual that conventional ethnographic research designates as ‘key informant’. (Pajo, 2015)Systematic interpretive analysis of this de facto ethnographic repository then led to a number of findings and conclusions that are noteworthy and can even be impactful for challenging certain key positions of extant scholarship on the topic (Pajo, 2015; Pajo, 2016).…”

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Quantitative Falsification for Qualitative Findings: Falsifying an Ethnographic Theory of American Public Discourse on Nuclear Waste With Text Mining in R

Pajo

2018

Social Science Computer Review

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How can ethnographic theories that are qualitative and interpretive in nature also be scientific? This article puts forth an illustrative answer: It employs quantitative text mining methods to falsify prior findings reached largely through qualitative interpretations. The author's earlier research innovated on core anthropological methods to offer that U.S. public discourse on radioactive waste between 1945 and 2009 may be best understood in terms of two paradigmatic waves that differ from each other in conceptualization of nuclear waste as well as in how nuclear waste relates to the broader environment and to human health. This article distills those earlier qualitative findings into a list of refutable statements that are subsequently assessed through quantitative analysis of the textual corpus of the original proxy for the ethnographic repository through employing the R statistical programming language (Version 3.4.0). As this case of quantitative analysis lends confidence on the validity of the interpretive conclusions in question, this article suggests that quantitative falsification testing may be a fit way for ethnographic findings to fulfill their scientific ambitions.

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Nuclear energy myths versus facts support it's expanded use - a review

Hayes

2022

Cleaner Energy Systems

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Danger explodes, space implodes: the evolution of the environmental discourse on nuclear waste, 1945–1969

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Do we need disasters to adopt more environmental policies?

Do we need disasters to adopt more environmental policies?

Quantitative Falsification for Qualitative Findings: Falsifying an Ethnographic Theory of American Public Discourse on Nuclear Waste With Text Mining in R

Nuclear energy myths versus facts support it's expanded use - a review

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