Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5105901 | Energy Policy | 2017 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The article explores framing of the siting process of a deep geological repository of nuclear waste in the Czech Republic by the municipalities' representatives in the pre-selected localities. Three distinguished frames have been reconstructed. The risk frame, which connects the project with a number of predominantly environmental threats, is counter-balanced by the responsibility frame that uses the 'Not-In-My-Back-Yard' label to delegitimize the local opposition. The third frame then portrays the siting process as a display of general distrust towards political elites and state institutions. It is argued that the distinguished frames stem from a deeper ideological conflict about the nature of democratic governance and the value attributed to environment, further stressing the importance of a siting process' institutional arrangement that goes beyond technocratic solutions.
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Authors
Petr OcelÃk, Jan OsiÄka, Veronika Zapletalová, Filip Äernoch, BÅetislav DanÄák,