Nuclear energy and global governance : ensuring safety, security and non-proliferation / / Trevor Findlay

• Autore: Findlay Trevor <1951-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.11/93337924
• Soggetto topico: Nuclear energy - Security measures; Nuclear industry; Nuclear nonproliferation
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Assessing a nuclear energy revival : the drivers -- Assessing the nuclear revival : the constraints -- Assessing the "revival" -- The current status of global nuclear governance : the nuclear safety regime -- The current status of global nuclear governance : nuclear security and nonproliferation -- Implications of the nuclear revival for global governance.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book considers the implications of the nuclear energy revival for global governance in the areas of safety, security and non-proliferation.Increased global warming, the energy demands of China, India and other emerging economic powerhouses and the problems facing traditional and alternative energy sources have lead many to suggest that there will soon be a nuclear energy 'renaissance'. This book examines comprehensively the drivers of and constraints on the revival, its nature and scope and the possibility that nuclear power will spread significantly beyond the countries which currently re
• Titolo autorizzato: Nuclear energy and global governance
• ISBN: 1-136-84992-0; 1-136-84993-9; 1-283-04180-4; 9786613041807; 0-203-83450-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810346703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge global security studies ; ; 21.