Caution principle, nuclear energy and future
Creators
Description
It is historical way which the social and cultural conditions that legitimate the actions of the men in general and in particular the industrial and technological development of the civilizations. The societies go going by stages of growth that are characterized, among other aspects, for the positive valuation of those that assume risks, connoting these attitudes of heroic. Once gotten certain levels of well-being, in this civilizations spend to the situation of to conserve and to guarantee that gotten. In this development level, taking a risk passes of being heroic attitude to criminal, since it understands each other that it can get lost the previously acquired thing. Everything takes body in the norms of coexistence, included the collections in the laws, like it is the case of the principle of precaution, legal reflection of this situation in the western world. Societies that more than to conquer new development levels what it want is the one that already have to assure. (Author)
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Spanish)
- Principio de precaucion, Energia Nuclear y futuro: de la Riesgofilia a la Reiesgofobia
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Espana (1996)
- Journal Volume
- 244
- Journal Page Range
- p. 43-46
- ISSN
- 1137-2885
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Spain
- Country of Input or Organization
- Spain
- INIS RN
- 36004360
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- HAZARDS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PLANNING; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK ASSESSMENT
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY