Environmental justice of nuclear waste policy in Taiwan: Taipower, government, and local community

Huang, Gillan Chi‐Lun; Gray, Tim; Bell, David

doi:10.1007/s10668-013-9461-1

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“…There are some studies which approach the ethical issues of NWM from different theoretical perspectives/conceptual frameworks (see e.g. Kr€ utli et al 2012;Huang, Gray, and Bell 2013;Ocelik et al 2017). Intragenerational and intergenerational injustice has been found to be influential in community debates on NWM (Kojo, Kari, and Litmanen 2012;Huang, Gray, and Bell 2013;Ocelik et al 2017).…”

Section: Nuclear Waste Disposal Justice and Public Acceptance: Ethicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kr€ utli et al 2012;Huang, Gray, and Bell 2013;Ocelik et al 2017). Intragenerational and intergenerational injustice has been found to be influential in community debates on NWM (Kojo, Kari, and Litmanen 2012;Huang, Gray, and Bell 2013;Ocelik et al 2017). Huang, Gray, and Bell (2013) discovered that the justice issues that opponents of nuclear waste siting in Taiwan experienced pertained to spatial and temporal injustice.…”

Section: Nuclear Waste Disposal Justice and Public Acceptance: Ethicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A key challenge among the ethical issues concerning NWM, as they have been discussed in the literature, is that they are often not empirically substantiated (Taebi 2017). One specific branch in the literature that has specifically looked into the views of local communities, namely environmental justice, has mainly studied local communities having different ethnic minorities (Wigley and Shrader-Frechette 1996;Gowda and Easterling 2000;Shrader-Frechette 2000Fan 2006;Huang, Gray, and Bell 2013). In these studies, it has been found that the local residents belonging to ethnic minorities face intragenerational and intergenerational injustice and are also mistrustful of the siting of nuclear waste facilities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perceptions of justice influencing community acceptance of spent nuclear fuel disposal. A case study in two Finnish nuclear communities

Vilhunen

Kojo

Litmanen

et al. 2019

Journal of Risk Research

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Final disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from nuclear power plants (NPPs) is an ethical issue with implications within and across generations. We address this issue from the perspective of nuclear communities that host nuclear waste disposal sites. These are primarily the communities that face injustice due to the potential radiological risks. A resident survey (n ¼ 454) was conducted in two Finnish nuclear communities, i.e. Eurajoki and Pyh€ ajoki, that are being considered as alternative sites for a second repository for SNF. The nuclear waste management (NWM) company Posiva is already building a repository in Eurajoki, the first in Finland. These communities are in different stages of their lifecycles as nuclear communities. We investigated the residents' conceptions of justice and trust regarding the repository SNF management and its main actors, and how these conceptions related to acceptance of the repository. The main findings show that residents of both communities perceived intragenerational and intergenerational injustices to be important in the procedures and the distribution of risks and benefits of the proposed repository. Claims regarding justice and trust were related to the acceptance of the repository. The community with the longer history with NWM expressed greater mistrust and perceived greater procedural injustice than the community with less earlier experience, whichin turnexpressed more concern over intragenerational distributive justice than the former community. Moreover, having longer history with NWM did not lead to a different understanding regarding responsibility toward future generations as resident's in both communities expressed similar concern over intergenerational justice. Moreover, having more experience of NWM did not enhance local acceptance. We emphasize that these results should be understood in the light of the prevailing situation in Finland, where the planning of the second repository is at a very early stage.

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Section: Nuclear Waste Disposal Justice and Public Acceptance: Ethicmentioning

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Section: Nuclear Waste Disposal Justice and Public Acceptance: Ethicmentioning

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Perceptions of justice influencing community acceptance of spent nuclear fuel disposal. A case study in two Finnish nuclear communities

Vilhunen

Kojo

Litmanen

et al. 2019

Journal of Risk Research

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“…The fundamental underpinning of distributional justice is the idea of equality -the idea that everyone should be subject to the same amount of environmental burdens and benefits. 25 However, there is acknowledgement too that some resources are either naturally, or unavoidably, uneven in their distribution. 26 This is true of nuclear waste.…”

Section: Nuclear Waste Siting: a Canadian Case Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy

Jenkins

Heffron

McCauley

2016

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Energy justice has recently emerged as a new crosscutting social science research agenda. In this chapter, its core tenets are explored: distributional, procedural and recognition justice. Using a case study approach of nuclear waste in Canada, nuclear reactors in the UK, and uranium mines in Australia, the manifestations of energy justice in practice are illustrated from a political economy perspective through analysing the nuclear energy sector. This focus allows us to identify both winners and losers with regards to energy justice throughout the nuclear energy system. Through promoting the application of this triple-pronged approach across the energy system and within the global context of energy production and consumption, recommendations for its operationalisation are advanced. Of significance, the political economy focus highlights the key areas for conflicts and trade-offs amongst the core tenets of energy justice as the concept makes policy ground.

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“…Second, our study makes a contribution to the literature by using an empirical study focusing on perceptions of the residents. Most previous studies (Ikeme, ; Rhodes, ) in the field of environmental development were conceptual or theoretical, and empirical studies focused on practices of the government and its policies (Hill & Targ, ; Huang, Gray, & Bell, ). The empirical finding of our study related to residents' perceptions will add to the literature evidence on how residents evaluate justice.…”

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confidence: 99%

The role of environmental justice in sustainable development in China

Sinha

Kim

et al. 2018

Sustainable Development

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This study drawing concepts from the fields of sociology, organizational behavior, and marketing examines residents' perceptions of justice in relation to environmental development. Although prior research raised issues related to environmental development from the justice perspective, very little is known about how residents perceive justice related to environmental development. Therefore, our study examines residents' perceptions of justice and how those perceptions influence the relationship with the government. More specifically, the study proposes that four types of justice (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational) are related with the residents' trust in the government, which predicts their intentions to support for future projects and the government. To test the proposed model, we collected data from residents of four cities in China that were going through environmental development projects. The results of the study show perceptions of distributive justice and interpersonal justice have a significant positive effect on the residents' trust in the government and the environmental development. The study also finds that trust in the government and trust in the environmental development are positively related with residents' intentions to support the government and additional environmental developments. Our finding, however, does not support that either perceptions of procedural justice or perceptions of informational justice are important in the Chinese context. Implications of the study are presented. KEYWORDS environmental justice, social exchange theory, support intention, sustainable development, trust in the government

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Environmental justice of nuclear waste policy in Taiwan: Taipower, government, and local community

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Perceptions of justice influencing community acceptance of spent nuclear fuel disposal. A case study in two Finnish nuclear communities

Perceptions of justice influencing community acceptance of spent nuclear fuel disposal. A case study in two Finnish nuclear communities

The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy

The role of environmental justice in sustainable development in China

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