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Mercury And Radioactive Waste Disposal In Sweden: Political Handling At The Local Level

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  • YLVA UGGLA

    (Man-Technology-Environment Research Centre, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden)

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The paper analyses the political handling of mercury and radioactive waste disposal at the local level, and includes a case study of a Swedish community where there is a conflict concerning a planned deep repository of mercury. The analysis is based on two contrasting lines of planning theory, the trajectory of rational planning and the trajectory of communicative planning. In politics and planning on environmental matters, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a means of involving various actors in consultation. EIA refers both to a document that provides the basis for decisions and a working process, which can be seen as an endeavour to integrate the divergent trajectories of planning. Experiences from mercury and radioactive waste disposal, however, show a bias towards rational planning, giving scientific and technological expertise precedence to define the issue at stake. Likewise, the process of policy implementation shows a course with weak political commitment at the national as well as the local level of government.

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  • Ylva Uggla, 2002. "Mercury And Radioactive Waste Disposal In Sweden: Political Handling At The Local Level," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 4(04), pages 425-447.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:04:y:2002:i:04:n:s1464333202001145
    DOI: 10.1142/S1464333202001145
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