Decommissioning Aging Installations and Declining Technologies : Burden or Inspiration. / Mathilde Bourrier

Series Editor’s Foreword -- Chapter 1: Decommissioning Ageing Installations and Declining Technologies: Burden or Inspiration? -- Chapter 2: Technological Decline from a Socio-Material Perspective -- Chapter 3: Discontinuation Through Enforcement of the Law: Court Rulings as Leverage for Stopping Delegitimized Practices and Technologies -- Chapter 4: Undesirable Systems, Undesired Ends: The (Un)Bearable Heaviness of Phasing-Out Pesticides? -- Chapter 5: Glory, Mourning, Memory. Archiving Knowledge, Dismantling Nuclear Power -- Chapter 6: Preserving and Valuing Memory for a Safer and More Sustainable Future: The Key Role of Archives -- Chapter 7: Collecting, Dismantling, Documenting, Reusing: Marginal Practices with Discarded Electronics -- Chapter 8: Safety Culture Lessons Learned in Decommissioning VTT’s FiR 1 Research Reactor -- Chapter 9: Decommissioning Management and Leadership for Safety Education: Addressing the Organizational Challenges and the Managerial Complexity of Nuclear Decommissioning Projects -- Chapter 10: The Language of Transitions: Navigating Innovation, Decline and Renewal.

This open-access brief tackles the idea, prevalent in some industrial sectors, that decommissioning, de-pollution and waste management are a necessary evil rather than a predictable phase of industry for which preparations can and should be made in advance.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.